International Accreditation New Zealand - Your assurance of technical competence
 
 

 

Accreditation
 


Competence, reliability and confidence
Accreditation by International Accreditation New Zealand (IANZ) is the international process for assessing and recognising the technical competence and the effective quality processes of a professional service and its staff. You can be assured that laboratories, radiology services and inspection bodies displaying the IANZ Accreditation mark follow the best international technical and management systems standards.

Definition of accreditation
Accreditation means formal recognition that a conformity assessment body has been independently assessed by an authoritative accreditation body in the five key areas of:


  • Competence and experience of staff
  • Integrity and traceability of equipment and materials
  • Technical validity of methods
  • Validity and suitability of results
  • Compliance with appropriate management systems standards and is found to
    be competent to carry out its services in a professional, reliable and efficient manner

As such, accredited organisations are entitled to issue certificates of compliance. These certificates may take the form of test or inspection reports – as is the case for IANZ accredited laboratories, inspection bodies and radiology practices.

In other accreditation, conformity assessment bodies are accredited to issue certificates of compliance for products, quality and environmental management systems, and systems certification auditors. These organisations are referred to as certification bodies and who assess for compliance with international, national and industry management systems standards. Prime examples of this certification are ISO 9001 quality management systems and ISO 14001 environmental management systems.

To better understand the role of accreditation, read about Conformity Assessment (pdf).




 
 
 
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