Benefits of being accredited

Accreditation provides formal recognition to competent conformity assessment bodies, such as laboratories, certification bodies and inspection bodies, thus providing a ready means for customers to identify and select reliable conformity assessment services.

Through a system of international arrangements, accredited organisations receive a form of international recognition, which allows their data to be more readily accepted in overseas markets. This recognition helps to reduce costs for manufacturers and exporters that have their products or materials tested, certified or inspected in accredited organisations, by reducing or eliminating the need for retesting, recertifying or re-inspection in another country.

Accreditation benefits organisations by allowing them to determine whether they are performing their work correctly and to appropriate standards, and provides them with a benchmark for maintaining that competence.