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Certification - Industry Position Statement (UKAS)

13 February 2020
National Accreditation Body UKAS have recently released a position statement relating to accredited vs non-accredited certification.

Properly integrating management systems standards into an organization can help to reduce business risk, improve company processes and operational efficiencies, promote growth and drive continual improvement. There are many benefits of having an effective and controlled management system in place and they can be a valuable tool that provides customers and suppliers with a higher level of confidence.

Due to the UK Government’s conformity assessment and accreditation policy, the following statement discusses how businesses looking into certification should only be considering the services of Certification Bodies accredited by the national accreditation body (e.g UKAS).

To read the full industry position statement, please click here.