Benefits of Accreditation

For government and regulators

Accreditation is the preferred mechanism for ensuring public confidence in the reliability and integrity of activities that has impact on health, welfare, security and the environment.

This is because accreditation:

• reduces the need for government as well as authorities concerned to employ their own specialist assessment personnel and the associated cost burden.
• offers a single, transparent and repeatable approach.

Accreditation stimulates competition in the marketplace and provides a framework to innovation and creativity. Accreditation fulfills the requirements to remove trade barriers and ensures the competitiveness of exports.

For business

Accreditation is an essential tool for decision-making and risk management. Organizations can save time and money by selecting an accredited and therefore competent supplier. Accurate measurements and tests carried out in compliance with best practices limit product failure and down time and control manufacturing cost. Accredited testing and calibration laboratories can be a good source of impartial advice and knowledge transfer leading to product development & diversification opportunities. Accreditation to internationally recognized standards can provide a competitive advantage and facilitate access to export markets worldwide. Using an accredited body to carry out an independent evaluation helps demonstrate due diligence in the event of legal action.

For consumers

Accreditation gives consumers confidence in an ever increasingly complex, dynamic and global market place by ensuring consistently high standards in the quality of products or services purchased.

For accredited organizations

In a number of areas, it is a requirement to obtain accreditation before offering certain services; in others it is a de facto ‘license’ to trade in that, key purchasers expect it.

Accreditation provides market differentiation and objective proof that an organization complies with best practice. The internationally recognized system is used to develop and sustain high standards of performance. It is a winning formula for eligibility to tender and for international trade.