UKAAB is the National Accreditation Body for the United Kingdom. We are appointed by government, to assess and accredit organisations that provide services including certification, testing, inspection and calibration.
ACCREDITATION
It operates in accordance with relevant international standards and requirements and maintains integrity and impartiality while taking into account national and public interest. UKAAB has established as an independent, impartial and transparent accreditation system.
United Kingdom American Accreditation Bureau UKAAB Accreditation scheme for Calibration and Testing laboratories is strictly built as per ISO 17025.
ISO 15189:2012 delivers the specific requirements for quality and competence that are specific to medical imaging
According to ISO, an inspection is: An examination of a product, process, service, or installation or their design and determination of its conformity with specific requirements
The United Accreditation Foundation offers an internationally recognized accreditation program for the certification of persons.
Accreditation refers to third-party attestation related to a conformity assessment body conveying formal demonstration of its competence to carry out specific conformity assessment tasks” Accreditation, with its many potential benefits for the quality of goods and in the provision of services throughout the supply chain, is underpinning practical applications of an increasingly wide range of activities across all sectors of the economy, from fishing to forestry, construction to communications. Basically, it is an endorsement of a conformity assessment body’s (CAB’s) competence, credibility, independence and integrity in carrying out its conformity assessment activities.
In everyday language the terms accreditation and certification are often used interchangeably. In the conformity assessment industry however, these terms have very different and specific meanings.
Certification is “third-party attestation related to products, processes, systems or persons.” (ISO/ IEC 17000:2004)
An increasing number of businesses are voluntarily choosing to be accredited as they recognize the internal efficiency that it brings and the opportunities to demonstrate best practices.