Practitioner D Workshop

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Practitioner D Workshop Accreditation Future
developments and their impacts
Andrew Marlow and Martyn Cheesbrough
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Introductions

• Brief introduction of
• Name
• Organisation
• Your role in environment management systems
• Your aspirations for the workshop

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What is Accreditation?

• Formal recognition that an organisation is
  competent to carry out specific tasks or types of
  tasks
• Impartial, independent assessment of competence
  against international standards

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UKAS - where do we fit?
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Timeline

• Ten years ago
• BS 7750 and ISO 14001996 / EMAS I
• Five years ago
• Concerns over integrity of EMS certification
• Today
• Enhancements to accreditation
• Integration with regulation

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Where are we now?

• Accredited certification is based on
  International Standards
• ISO / IEC Guide 661999(E)
• ISO 170212006 (from 16 September 2008)
• International Accreditation Forum Guidance
• European Co-operation for Accreditation Guidance

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Significant changes for 17021

• None for EMS..but
• Focus on competence management
• Clarity on impartiality and conscience
• Publicly available information

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How do we work?

• Contract Reviews
• Document Review
• Head-Office Assessments
• Witnessed Assessments
• Remote/desktop/interview/other
• Four-year accreditation cycle

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Where are we now?

• Development of UKAS C3 / EA 7/04 and recruitment
  of EMS specialists
• Four key focus areas
• Competence of personnel
• Allocation of time for a satisfactory audit
• Auditor recommendations, reports and records
• Assessment of legal compliance

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What are the current issues?

• Taking the viewpoint of the next five years, what
  would the group expect from accredited
  certification in the future?
• Whats wrong now
• How could we fix it
• How would we know weve fixed it
• Two Groups for discussion and flipchart capture

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Breakout Groups

• Group 1 Andrew Marlow
• Group 2 Martyn Cheesbrough