Our Accreditation Services
GSAS’s management and assessors are dedicated to providing reliable, independent evaluations of conformity assessment bodies against recognized international, national, and technical standards.
We facilitate the issuance of trusted, scientific results by assessed and accredited conformity assessment bodies and confidence in the quality and safety of the products and services that they certify. This is our service to our customers and stakeholders.
Global Standard Accreditation Services (GSAS) is a multi-disciplinary accreditation body in the world, a large number of organizations accredited in approximately 80 countries.
GSAS provides accreditation and training and serves as architects for the conformity assessment structure of industry-specific programs.
Our Accreditation Program
GSAS accredits management systems CBs that demonstrate competence to audit and certify organizations, using ISO/IEC 17021-1, the international standard for CBs providing audit and certification of management systems.
Learn more about GSAS and The GSAS Accreditation Advantage. To find out more about selecting an GSAS accredited CB visit Tips for Selecting a CB and GSAS’s Directory of Accredited CBs.
Inspection Body Accreditations:
The goal of the GSAS inspection body accreditation program is to provide 3rd party assurance of the quality of inspection activities with the objective of promoting confidence in inspection through accreditation and assuring compliance with the international standard ISO/IEC 17020.
GSAS accredited inspection bodies may carry out inspection activities on behalf of private clients, their parent organizations, or authorities, with the objective of providing information about the conformity of inspected items with regulations, standards, specifications, inspection schemes or contracts.
Inspection activities may include matters of quantity, quality, safety, fitness for purpose, and continued safety compliance of installations or systems in operation. Inspection bodies may perform inspections on the examination of materials, products, installations, plants, processes, work procedures or services, and the determination of their conformity with requirements and the subsequent reporting of results of these activities to clients and, when required, to authorities.
The GSAS inspection body accreditation program was designed to assure the quality of inspection bodies through assuring compliance with ISO/IEC 17020. This internationally accepted standard was developed with the participation of industry experts, regulators, and stakeholders and is used as the foundation for assuring the quality of inspection bodies and the data they produce.
Inspection accreditation can help move your organization toward global recognition, consistent operations, and a competitive advantage.
Laboratory Accreditations:
The goal of GSAS laboratory accreditation program is to provide 3rd party assurance of the quality of laboratories with the objective of promoting confidence in laboratory activities through accreditation by assuring compliance with international standards, ISO/IEC 17025 and ISO 15189.
Laboratory accreditation is highly regarded both nationally and internationally as a reliable indicator of technical competence. Many industries from forensic service providers, food and agriculture, pharmaceutical, calibration, cannabis, chemical, construction, medical, environmental, automotive, and aerospace routinely specify laboratory accreditation for suppliers of laboratory services.
The GSAS laboratory accreditation program is designed to assure the quality of laboratories through compliance with ISO/IEC 17025 and ISO 15189 for laboratories in the medical field. These internationally accepted standards are used as the foundation for assuring the quality of laboratories and the data they produce.
GSAS laboratory accreditation can help move your laboratory toward global recognition, consistent operations, and a competitive advantage.
The GSAS medical testing program is intended for use throughout the medical laboratory disciplines, it can effectively be applied to other healthcare services, such as diagnostic imaging, respiratory therapy, physiological sciences, blood banks and transfusion services.
The GSAS medical testing accreditation program was designed to assure the quality of medical testing laboratories through assuring compliance with ISO 15189. This internationally accepted standard was developed with the participation of the medical, scientific, and clinical community, and it contains requirements for diagnostic labs to demonstrate competence to deliver timely, accurate, and reliable results. GSAS accreditation can help move your organization toward global recognition, consistent operations, and a competitive advantage.
There has been an increase in the type and volume of bold statements and claims, particularly related to sustainability. GSAS ISO/IEC 17029 accreditation provides for competent and independent third-parties to evaluate the validity of claims and to ensure that claims are not empty or exaggerated, but factual.
ISO/IEC 17029 requires the identification of the object of validation and/or verification (“the claim”) as well as the applicable validation and/or verification (the “program”).
Requirements for Validation and Verification Bodies (V/VBs) and the validation and verification process are not new. In 2006 the ISO Greenhouse Gas series of standards were published and were specific to GHG emissions disclosure to support action on global climate change. ISO/IEC 17029 expands this to other types of validation and verification and provides a uniform basis for the validation and verification of statements and reports of all kinds. These include statements on the environmental performance of products and organization, sustainability reports, comparative statements, ethical statements and more. GSAS offers accreditation against ISO/IEC 17029 and ISO 14065 for Greenhouse Gas validation and verification and is in the process of adding new validation and verification programs. ISO 14065 defines requirements for bodies that validate and verify environmental information statements. Under the environmental information validation/verification program GSAS currently accredits organizations active in greenhouse gas emissions disclosure.
Products, Process, and Services Accreditations:
GSAS Product Accreditation establishes a global recognition through our impartiality and expertise which creates trust and confidence in the products used by consumers daily.
GSAS is recognized by government regulators and industry associations to assess against internationally recognized standards and other normative requirements. GSAS Accreditation is comprised of technical knowledge and expertise supported by technical professionals across a wide range of product categories.
About GSAS
GSAS was formed in 1995 in the United States to accredit a range of assess products, process, services, personnel and management systems. We are proudly independent and free of political interference. With our global headquarters in the United States, we serve clients in over 80 countries worldwide, using internationally recognised conformity assessment standards. Our market strength lies in not being a government appointed accreditation body. We seek only to benefit our prospective partners and the public by processes of openness, simplicity and technical validation.
Certification is a fantastic business asset but we know there is sometimes a misunderstanding about certification, that governments deem it to be mandatory and that all certification bodies have to be accredited by a National Accreditation Body, when in fact accreditation remains voluntary.
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