Accreditation is defined as an official recognition in the professional ability and competence of the organization to perform examinations, reviews, tests, measurements and calibrations according to its client's needs. Accreditation is given to test methods that are performed according to standards, specifications of other normative documents, or methods developed by the organization. Accreditation is available to all types of organisations, testing (calibration/testing laboratories), supervising and examining bodies, whether they are part of a factory or part of the public or private sector.
In addition accreditation enables the organization to evaluate the work it performs in comparison with international standards. Accreditation is a managerial and marketing tool that offers the organization and its managers a way to ensure the credibility of their results and the efficient function of the organization.
These are the reasons why regulatory bodies and big buyers in Israel and all over the world prefer using accreditation in their process of recognition of assessment bodies or their results.
Receiving accreditation from an objective national body provides official recognition and strong evidence that the organization’s management has taken every possible precaution in order to ensure that its quality system is well implemented in the organization, thus providing high quality performance in tests/ inspections and certification processes. Such evidence may come to the organization’s aid in court or when dealing with insurance companies.
In many cases, accreditation gives the organization an advantage over its competitors in public tenders commissioned by large bodies and especially those commissioned by governmental bodies. Currently, the following government regulators require accreditation from laboratories as a condition for working with them: the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Industry, Trade & Labor (standardization chief supervisor and works chief supervisor), the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of National Infrastructures. Laboratory certification is required by the Mandatory Tenders Law.
In addition, all government tenders relating to testing require laboratory accreditation where relevant.
Important! Accreditation provides official recognition of the organization’s abilities, thus ensuring its clients and large customers in the market, such as law enforcement agencies, of receiving trustable, high quality and comparable results. |
