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Customers are a priority with the International Accreditation Service (IAS). We provide a high quality, cost-effective, and internationally recognized laboratory accreditation program that helps laboratories meet their clients’ demands for evidence of technical competence. We appreciate the opportunity to share with you how IAS accreditation can help your laboratory.
Benefits of IAS Accreditation
The IAS laboratory accreditation program provides the following benefits: |
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Proof of Compliance: IAS accreditation provides proof of compliance with ANS/ISO/IEC Standard 17025:2005. |
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Marketing Advantage: IAS accreditation can be used to effectively market your testing and/or calibration services to your customers.
IAS accreditation is highly regarded nationally and internationally as a reliable indicator of technical competence. Most industries routinely specify that suppliers of testing services maintain accreditation by a nationally recognized accreditation body such as IAS.
Unlike certification to ISO 9001, laboratory accreditation uses criteria and procedures specifically developed to verify technical competence, thus assuring customers that the test, calibration, or measurement data supplied by a laboratory is accurate and reliable.
Through a system of international mutual recognition arrangements (MRAs), the reports from IAS accredited laboratories are readily accepted in overseas markets. This recognition helps to reduce costs for manufacturers and exporters that have their products or materials tested in accredited laboratories by reducing or eliminating the need for retesting in another country. The certificates of accreditation for all IAS - accredited laboratories are available for public viewing on the IAS web site. |
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Confidence: IAS accreditation to internationally accepted criteria provides complete confidence in the quality of services provided by testing laboratories. |
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Transparency: IAS accreditation is independent and objective, and is based on a transparent accreditation process, which instills confidence in the accreditation results. |
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Competency: IAS accreditation provides evidence that laboratories render competent services in line with international standards. |
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Outstanding Quality of Assessments: IAS places tremendous importance on the training of its assessors. This leads to high levels of assessor competency and technical expertise. |
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Enhanced Knowledge Base: With its excellent knowledge base and team of technical experts, IAS helps to improve the quality of work performed by its accredited testing and calibration laboratories. |
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Proficiency Testing and Interlaboratory Comparisons: IAS provides for proficiency testing and interlaboratory comparisons that laboratories use to demonstrate their technical competence. IAS provides independent feedback concerning a laboratory’s actual performance, which is used as a tool to monitor improvement efforts. |
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Prompt, Personal Service: Learning what customers’ scheduling needs and wants are for completing the accreditation process, and then developing action plans to achieve these objectives, is a priority at IAS. Our goal is to consistently meet or exceed the customer's expectations. |
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List of IAS Accredited Laboratories |
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The Accreditation Process
IAS accredits laboratories by verifying technical competence and assessing their quality systems to the international standard ANS/ISO/IEC Standard 17025:2005. The process for becoming an IAS-accredited laboratory begins with the laboratory’s submittal of an application, applicable fees, and a quality manual. An IAS accreditation officer is selected to partner with the laboratory throughout the accreditation process, beginning with a review of the quality manual and the requested scope of accreditation. Once the quality manual has been reviewed and approved, IAS selects an assessment team based on the requested scope of accreditation. The assessment team conducts an on-site assessment of the laboratory and develops an assessment report. Once a laboratory has satisfied IAS accreditation requirements and demonstrated competence, an accreditation certificate is issued. |
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About IAS
International Accreditation Service, a subsidiary corporation of the International Code Council®, assesses and accredits testing and calibration laboratories and inspection bodies. The IAS testing laboratory accreditation program is recognized internationally by the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) and the Asia Pacific Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (APLAC) and in the U.S. by the National Cooperation for Laboratory Accreditation (NACLA). In operation since 1975, IAS is a nonprofit, public benefit corporation and one of the oldest accreditation bodies of its type. |
