Accreditation means authorization about a particular subject.
Regarding certification process, accreditation means internationally recognition, performing the certification ethics and rules seriously and reliability. However, all certification accreditation processes are mainly implemented on volunteerism base.
To remove the differences between the countries, which will create difficulties for free trade and for that all applications could be same for same standard to be possible, international accreditation rules and teams are indispensable.
To understand the accreditation systematic, the below mentioned hierarchic structure should be known well.
As seen above, there are complex relations and detailed rules for per relations.
International Accreditation Establishments or Regional Accreditation Organisms had made a mutual recognition contract, so they provided that one certificate which had been given by any certification institute under the accreditation, could be valid for any other countries.
Although this, reliability and persuasiveness problems can occurred between the partners from time to time.
Our company, KALÝTEST, has been accredited first on quality and environment subjects by TURKAK which is our national accreditation institute. After the accreditation on this point, our company will assist at least one foreign accreditation body. Basically, accreditation is given under the three categories:
1) System Certifications ( ISO 9001:2000, ISO 14001)
2) Product Certifications (TSE, TSEK, CE, TUV, EUROPGEAP, etc…)
3) Personnel Certification
However, accreditation could not be available per standard which has been issued. This situation is mainly available for system certifications. For instance, OHSAS and HACCP systems has not accredited yet. Concerning these points, audits and certifications have being performed as related to certification institutes’ own reliability and systematic.
Please use the below links for extending scopes day by day and the accreditation subjects of KALITEST CERTIFICATION AND TRAINING SERVICES INC.:
www.turkak.org.tr
www.rva.nl
www.ukas.com