We are independent accreditation body in United Kingdom
UK Accreditation Committee (UKAC) is an autonomous and independent accreditation bodybased in United Kingdom, offering accreditation to certification, testing and inspection bodies worldwide for various schemes. UKAC is a pioneer in the field of accreditation and our hallmark is impartiality.
UKAC accreditation programs are designed to ensure the competency of its accredited organizations and is globally recognized.
ACCREDITATIONS
- System Certification Bodies Accreditation as per ISO/IEC 17021-1
- Product Certification Bodies Accreditation as per ISO/IEC 17065
- Inspection Bodies Accreditation as per ISO/IEC 17020
- Testing and Calibration laboratories Accreditation as per ISO/IEC 17025
- Personnel Certification Bodies Accreditation ISO/IEC 17024
OUR SERVICES
ISO/IEC 17021-1
System Certification Bodies Accreditation
ISO/IEC 17065
Product Certification Bodies Accreditation
ISO/IEC 17020
Inspection Bodies Accreditation
ISO/IEC 17025
Testing and Calibration laboratories Accreditation
ISO/IEC 17024
Personnel Certification Bodies Accreditation
UKAC Accreditation Membership
Individual Membership
Advance in your accreditation knowledge and career
Organizational Membership
The first step in the journey to full accreditation
Benefits of Accreditation
UKAC accreditation delivers a number of important benefits to conformity assessment bodies that enhance confidence in conformity assessment.
Highlight your competence
By meeting UKAC’s internationally-recognized policies and procedures on a regular basis you highlight your competence in performing conformity assessment activities.
Demonstrate your independence
For an effective assessment to occur the independence of the conformity assessment body is paramount. UKAC accreditation emphasizes the independence of the conformity assessment body in performing the assessment.
Benchmark your performance
Regular assessments by UKAC’s audit teams allow you to determine whether you are performing your assessment activities correctly and to appropriate standards, as well as providing your business with a benchmark for measuring future performance against.
It’s the mark of the Professional
UKAC operates in a third party assessment environment. Third party assessment is recognized around the world as the highest level of assessment, and UKAC accreditation demonstrates to your customers and others that your conformity assessment services are meeting the highest levels of professionalism in the conformity assessment industry.UKAC accepts applications for accreditation from conformity assessment bodies around the world.
How to become Accredited?
A typical process is as follows:
- Initial enquiry
- Preliminary response
- Submission of application request together with administration fee. Please note: Applicants are expected to comply with the requirements of applicable standards (e.g. ISO 17021). Personnel competence will require demonstration.
- Application performance of accreditation routines dependent upon assessment and certifying standards.
- Send manual, procedures, require formats or applicable documents in hard or softcopy.
- We shall review and comment. If necessary we will require you to amend and respond before the next step.
- Demonstrate impartiality of your organization in respect of independence from ‘related bodies’ and that it is a legal entity.
- For the first six assessments you must advise UKAC before hand that you intend to carry out an assessment.
- You send us photocopies / e-mails of all the documents related to those assessment and certification assignments demonstrating compliance with the documents that we had earlier reviewed.
- We shall issue a draft accreditation certificate. Your accreditation reference will be defined at this time. This will be subject to a satisfactory site witness of your activity.
- UKAC witnesses your next assessment and certification activity.
- You conduct a further four assessments and send us copies of the paperwork.
- We witness the next convenient assessment.
During the course of the preceding actions we would have expected to conduct several face to face meetings and visits to your operating premises.
- Issue of accreditation certificate if appropriate.
- You continue to assess and certificate but don’t need to send paperwork.
- We will monitor the level of your activity and conduct accreditation reviews to suit.
- You must inform us of all certification activity.
- Ongoing surveillance and accreditation including allocation of accreditation numbers.
TESTIMONIALS
What Our Customers Say
Kristin Watson
It was with some concern that I looked forward to meeting with the accreditors because I wished to significantly alter the company’s original proposal in the light of recent events. However, I was delighted by my first experience of accreditation with UKAC.
Ronald Richards
The visitors showed a willingness to listen to the company’s ideas about moving forward even though they were not traditional and they offered useful suggestions as to how we might implement them more effectively. Thanks UKAC!
Wade Warren
All of us enjoyed the visit from the team. Meeting officials and learning from them while they learned from us is a part of the process that benefits all. The UKAC accreditation process is thorough and demanding; however, it is a process that is determining excellence so perhaps it should be.”
Aviana Plummer
The UKAC accreditation process was extremely beneficial for us. We used the UKAC visiting team’s report as a launching point to develop our new strategic plan. Almost all of the initiatives in our plan emanate from the report.
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UKAC aims at promoting quality by enabling manufacturers and suppliers of goods/ services to apply quality standards and tools and simultaneously empowering consumers to demand quality goods/services.
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