IAF to Vote on Whether Certification Bodies Should be Required to Upload Certs to Global Database. How Would You Vote?

Prior to vote, IAF seeks industry feedback to understand the level of demand from businesses and regulators.

(IAF: Chelsea, Quebec, Canada) -- The International Accreditation Forum (IAF) has announced that it is conducting extended market research to evaluate market support for a fully-populated management systems certificate database. Before IAF members vote on whether or not to mandate that accredited conformity assessment bodies upload their management system certifications into IAF’s certification database, IAF CertSearch, IAF is seeking wider feedback from industry to understand the level of demand from businesses and regulators.

Whilst 1,193 accredited conformity assessment bodies (CABs, sometimes called registrars) have activated and uploaded nearly 575,000 accredited certificates to the IAF global database, this only represents approximately 36 percent of accredited management system certificates globally (compared to ISO survey data). The reason for this is because the database has been voluntary for CABs to participate and upload.

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IAF to Vote on Whether Certification Bodies Should be Required to Upload Certs to Global Database. How Would You Vote?

Prior to vote, IAF seeks industry feedback to understand the level of demand from businesses and regulators.

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