Inspection
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...
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...
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...
Leveraging data for improved safety and compliance
We live in a world where “data is the new oil” or “data is capital” and many other variations on the theme that data is a valuable commodity. I agree...
Technical Regulations – South American Perspective
During the past decades, many countries realized that conformity assessment can be a good method to regulate markets. A market can be regulated to offer safe and/or efficient products to...