Our Accreditation

Certification can be a useful tool to add credibility, by demonstrating that your product or service meets the expectations of your customers. For some industries, certification is a legal or contractual requirement.

ISO does not perform certification
At ISO, we develop International Standards, such as ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, but we are not involved in their certification, and do not issue certificates. This is performed by external certification bodies, thus a company or organization cannot be certified by ISO.

However ISO's Committee on Conformity Assessment (CASCO) has produced a number of standards related to the certification process, which are used by certification bodies. Read more about CASCO standards.

Certification – the provision by an independent body of written assurance (a certificate) that the product, service or system in question meets specific requirements.

Accreditation – the formal recognition by an independent body, generally known as an accreditation body, that a certification body operates according to international standards.
Choosing a certification body
When choosing a certification body, you should:
Evaluate several certification bodies.
Check if the certification body uses the relevant CASCO standard
Check if it is accredited. Accreditation provides independent confirmation of competence. However, accreditation is not compulsory, and non-accreditation does not necessarily mean the certification body is not reputable.
Complaints about certification
ISO is interested to hear from you if you feel that any ISO standard, including ISO 9001 or ISO 14001, is being misused. Read more about making a complaint to ISO.

https://www.iso.org/certification

ABOUT ASCB ACCREDITATION

ACCREDITATION SERVICE FOR CERTIFYING BODIES

Accreditation Service for Certifying Bodies is among the few impartial and independent paradigm pioneers in the accreditation field. It has got a very wide base and operates in more than fifty-five countries in the whole world. In fact, Accreditation Service for Certifying Bodies is the largest and the most revered independent body for accreditation.

Accreditation Service for Certifying Bodies was started and found base in the year 1995 and it has gone a long way to become a pioneer in the accreditation field, making the work of innovation to be very possible as it encourages and sponsors its members. This is among others, some other best things a company or even an organization can give to their members. Accreditation Service for Certifying Bodies is respected by its members and other relevant global bodies for its impartiality as well as its user friendly business innovations.

Among the methods they use for evaluation include benchmarking through the quantitative methods of evaluation that are accepted by the conformity assessment body performance. This is done throughout the periods or rather as long as a body is still a member of Accreditation Service for Certifying Bodies . This makes it possible for them to ascertain in details how CABs is helping to attain the excellence levels demanded.

Accreditation is not just something that is done by any person and in any way. There are some rules as well as some well laid rules and regulations that govern who and how the accreditation processes are carried out. Going for a private accreditation body to accredit you means that you are checked in finer details. Accreditation Service for Certifying Bodies has therefore been assessed by other external bodies and organization and their rules of accrediting bodies are well accepted by the international community.

Accreditation Service for Certifying Bodies is also responsible for checking and the verification of the current certifications of a given body. Not only bodies are verified but individuals as well. Accreditation Service for Certifying Bodies trains students and it is a common practice for Accreditation Service for Certifying Bodies to keep a watch and verify the students who have finished training courses.