What is ISO accredited certification?
ISO accreditation or ISO accredited certification is when a company has achieved an ISO and / or BS standard by a certification body that is accredited byUKAS,INABor equivalent.
Please note that there is only one true accreditation body in each country and any other forms of ‘accreditation bodies’ may be misleading. For example, the accreditation body for the UK isUKASand Ireland isINAB. In most countries accreditation is a choice and not an obligation.
An accredited certification body can onlyperform the functions of an assessment / audit body and must not have any involvement in the set-up to certification process. This can therefore mean having to employ a company such as ourselves as the consultant to implement the system and have the accredited body in to certify it. This not only adds additional expense to the client but can also delay the time it takes to achieve the certification, taking an average of 9 months.
