How can accredited conformity assessment provide confidence for your needs?

Conformity assessment can take many forms (e.g., testing, inspection, certification). It can be undertaken by those with a client interest, for example a manufacturer, in the object of conformity assessment (e.g., specific material, product, installation, process, system, person, or body), or by those wholly independent, for example a certification body.

It can also be a combination of the two. Therefore, the level of ‘trust’ in that conformity assessment and any subsequent statement of conformity/certification can vary significantly.

Accreditation provides an assurance of the competence, impartiality, and consistency of the bodies performing the conformity assessment. This document describes some types of accredited conformity assessment available and the outcome that may be expected from them.

Objects of conformity assessment

Management System – Accredited conformity assessment focuses on the effectiveness of the management system in consistently meeting its applicable requirements. Accredited management system certification confirms the implementation of the management system for the specific scope.

Product/Process/Service – Accredited conformity assessment confirms (by an independent party) that the outcome (the product, process, or service) meets specified requirements either at a specific point in time (testing and inspection) or on an ongoing basis (certification).

Personnel – Accredited conformity assessment confirms that an individual meets specified competence requirements.

Claim – Accredited conformity assessment confirms the reliability of information declared in claims at a specific point in time (Validation/Verification) under the object of conformity assessment.

Types of conformity assessment

Inspection – Accredited inspection provides assurance that a product, installation, process, or service meets the specification at the time of inspection.

Testing – Accredited testing provides information about a single product at the time of testing.

Certification – Accredited certification provides assurance that a management system, product, service, process, or person meets the specification and that processes are in place to ensure continuing conformity.

Validation/Verification – Accredited validation provides assurance on the validity or credibility of claims for planned activities, while accredited verification provides assurance of a claim by verification of verifiable data.

Other useful definitions:

Scheme/Program – Specified requirements, rules, and procedures that are applied to specified objects of conformity assessment.

Sector schemes – Sector-specific requirements based on the requirements of ISO 9001.

UKJAS cannot accredit individuals, training, or qualifications. Nor can it accredit the certification of other conformity assessment activities (e.g., testing, inspection, certification, and validation/verification).

Which conformity assessment standard meets your requirements?

Types of conformity assessment
E.g., Quality, environment, safety, health & security

Are there specific requirements for your sector?
A scheme? Management system (optional)

Continual Confidence or Snapshot of Compliance

ISO/IEC 17021-1

Not applicable

Type of assessment: Management System Certification
Confirmation of compliance of the organization’s management system.

Product

E.g., Vehicle seats, double glazing

Are there specific requirements for your sector?
Technical specification/scheme

Continual Confidence or Snapshot of Compliance

1 Snapshot

ISO/IEC 17065 – Type of assessment: Product certification – Confirmation of compliance of the organization’s outcome given by independent party.

ISO/IEC 17020 – Type of assessment: Inspection – Confirmation of compliance of the organization’s outcome given by independent party.

ISO/IEC 17025 – Type of assessment: Testing – Confirmation of compliance of the organization’s outcome given by independent party.

Services

E.g., Charities, construction, customer service excellence

Are there specific requirements for your sector?
Technical specification/scheme

Continual Confidence or Snapshot of Compliance

ISO/IEC 17065 – Type of assessment: Product certification – Confirmation of compliance of the organization’s outcome given by independent party.

ISO/IEC 17020 – Type of assessment: Inspection – Confirmation of compliance of the organization’s outcome given by independent party.

Which conformity assessment standard meets your requirements?

Process

E.g., Welding, cleaning, farm food certification

Are there specific requirements for your sector?
Technical specification/scheme

Continual Confidence or Snapshot of Compliance

ISO/IEC 17065 – Type of assessment: Product certification – Confirmation of compliance of the organization’s outcome given by independent party.

ISO/IEC 17020 – Type of assessment: Inspection – Confirmation of compliance of the organization’s outcome given by independent party.

Validation/Verification of Claims

E.g., Greenhouse gas emission, carbon sequestration, performance claims for new technologies

Are there specific requirements for your sector?

Continual Confidence or Snapshot of Compliance
Technical specification/scheme

Not applicable – Type of assessment: Validation – The validation of the credibility of claims for planned activities.

ISO/IEC 17029 / ISO 14065 – Type of assessment: Verification – The verification of claims about verifiable data.

UKJAS Development Services – ‘Assessment solutions to deliver confidence – from design to implementation’.

If you’re a scheme owner, a policy maker, a regulator, a trade association, a professional body, a standards creator, a conformity assessment body, or a consumer, and you want to establish a scheme that involves quality assurance, we offer a new product development program to help you address your needs.

What is independent assessment?

This means that an independent or third-party organization is checking whether something, such as a product, service, a person, a system, or a claim meets specified requirements. These organizations are typically labs, inspection bodies, certification bodies, validation, and verification bodies. Our assessment will provide evidence of your scheme’s eligibility to be supported by accredited conformity assessment.

What services can UKJAS provide?

Our development team provides a range of services, from defining your requirements to designing an assessment or accreditation scheme. You can choose from a range of solutions or let us work with you to develop a strategy that suits your specific requirements.

Why work with UKJAS?

As the UK’s & India’s only national accreditation body, we have a history of providing assessment services for more than 50 years that have delivered confidence to Government and the business community. We are recognized and appointed by Government to assess, against agreed standards, organizations that provide certification, testing, inspection, validation/verification, and calibration services. Accreditation demonstrates the competence, impartiality, and performance capability of these CABs (Conformity Assessment Bodies).

We have a proven track record of delivering accredited schemes for various Government departments and agencies, trade associations, and professional bodies. We are currently working on a number of projects which are being developed for implementation in areas ranging from environmental certification, agri-food, finance, energy, construction, and cybersecurity.

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We can assist in the design of a conformity assessment scheme through an independent assessment of your plans or documentation, if you are looking to:

• Improve the competitiveness of UK & India businesses, products, or services

• Improve public trust in markets, products, and services

• Establish trust in a new product or technological innovation

• Improve trading opportunities by removing technical barriers to trade.

Additional Information:

If you are a Government official, scheme owner, healthcare professional body, or conformity assessment body, and you are interested in using accreditation to support the quality of assessments done by conformity assessment bodies, contact our team to discuss your development enquiry.

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