United Kindom Acceditation Service
Assessment of laboratories
BSI carries a host of UKAS (United Kindom Accreditation Service) accreditation for its current portfolio of services.
UKAS assesses laboratories against the requirements of the international standard ISO/IEC 17025, which replaces the previous standards ISO Guide 25 and EN 45001.
A laboratory seeking UKAS accreditation has to satisfy UKAS Assessment Managers and independent assessors that it is technically competent and operates a quality system to rigorous international standards.
Following successful assessment, UKAS will issue a schedule of accreditation to the laboratory, which will specify those calibrations or tests the laboratory has been accredited for, and for which it should issue certificates or reports bearing the UKAS testing or calibration mark.
It is in the interest of customers to specify clearly in their orders that a UKAS testing or calibration Report or Certificate is required for the work done by the UKAS accredited laboratories they are using.
Role of Notified Body
The primary role of a Notified Body is to provide services for conformity assessment on the conditions set out in the New Approach Directives in support of CE marking. This normally means assessing the manufacturers conformity to the essential requirements listed in each directive.
Conformity assessment can be inspection, quality assurance, unit verification, type examination or design examination, or a combination of these. Notification is the process where the Member State informs the Commission that a body meets the designated requirements, such as knowledge, experience, independence, resources, to conduct the conformity assessments. The Commission then publishes the names of the Notified Bodies in the Official Journal.
BSI is a Notified Body for many EU Directives.
Learn about the CE marking process.
