Conformity
Understanding Accreditation
Based on insightful answers by Peter Unger Co-Founder – Executive Director ofInternational Quality Excellence in Infrastructure Systems, LLP (https://www.iqeis.com/) and Former CEO-A2LA (https://a2la.org/) / ILAC Chair 2011- 2016 (marked in...
Driving Climate Change Action: The Crucial Role of the Conformity Assessment Industry
Gigabytes and gigabytes of ‘Information’ and ‘Ideas’ are all over defining all that businesses and individuals are convinced about. The Conference of Parties (https://www.cop28.com/) number 28 happening here in Dubai,...
Concepts of Functional Safety
Functional safety (FS) is a critical safety concept that is applicable across all Global industry sectors. It is fundamental to the enabling of complex technical systems used for safety related...
Is your ISO 9001 certificate authentic
ISO 9001 for quality management systems is arguably the most popular standard globally with nearly 885000 certificates worldwide as per ISO Survey 2019. Published in 1987 and touted as a...
Not Always What It Seems
The difference between IEC Reports and CB Scheme Reports/Certificates With this new drive towards leading edge electrical laboratory and medical solutions, manufacturers must maintain high quality Technical files on each...
Global Distribution – Electrical Equipment Compliance Responsibilities
“We simply ship someone else’s product. It’s not our responsibility to make sure the product is in compliance.“ This thought process comes up quite often when talking about electrical equipment...
Fire resistance test of timber doors
Fire resistance is the ability of a closure to meet the requirements of integrity (E), integrity and isolation (EI1 or EI2) or integrity and radiation (EW) for a specific period...
California Proposition 65 for consumer products
In a complex and ever-evolving chemical regulatory landscape, it is very important to ensure accurate and sustained chemical product compliance. Chemicals can contribute significant value to products; however, they require...
ISO/IEC 17065 Standard “Conformity assessment Requirements for bodies certifying products, processes and services”
Accreditation Bodies – which are signatory members of the IAF MLA (International Accreditation Forum Multilateral Agreement) – must have their accredited Product Certification Bodies according to the current ISO/IEC 17065...
Glancing at Technical Regulations in South America
After giving a general description/opinion about Technical Regulations in the first Post, I would like to make a quick review of main Technical Regulations (hereinafter TRs) which are implemented in...