Accreditation

Our continuing accreditation and implementation of the requirements of ISO 17025 means you can be confident that we have the competence, impartiality and performance capability necessary to consistently deliver technically valid testing results each and every time.

Accreditation to ISO17025 also means our quality management systems meet the principles of ISO 9001. This is endorsed by three major international organisations’ the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO), the International Laboratory Accreditation Co-operation (ILAC), and the International Accreditation Forum (IAF).

Who are UKAS?

UKAS (United Kingdom Accreditation Service) is the sole body recognised by HM Government for assessing and accrediting the competence of calibration and testing laboratories. Laboratories are accredited by UKAS to ISO 17025 which is the internationally recognised standard for the competence of calibration and testing laboratories.

Certification of a laboratory to ISO 9001 relates only to the laboratory’s quality management systems, not the technical competence of the laboratory. A laboratory that is certified to ISO 9001 only and is not accredited to ISO 17025 should not be considered an acceptable alternative to a UKAS laboratory.

UKAS Certificate of Accreditation

Our UKAS Certificate of Accreditation [no – 23361] can be found here:- https://www.ukas.com/find-an-organisation/

It is important to note however that UKAS accreditation of a testing laboratory does not necessarily mean that the laboratory can issue UKAS certificates for everything that it tests. Each individual test technique has to be separately accredited. The laboratory’s ‘UKAS Schedule of Accreditation’ will detail the activities for which they have been accredited.

UKAS Schedule of Accreditation

Our UKAS Schedule of Accreditation can be found here:- https://www.ukas.com/download-schedule/23361/Testing/

If you are unsure whether we or any other laboratory is UKAS accredited to carry out a particular test for you, you can check the Schedule of Accreditation.

Approved Body Status

Our Approved Body Status. [ID 8544] The approval of ERC Testing Limited as an Approved Body under article 48 of regulation (eu) no 305/2011 laying down harmonised conditions for the marketing of construction products (retained eu regulation 305/2011) has been granted by the secretary of state for housing, communities and local government.

Approved Body Is a conformity assessment body [CAB] appointed by a UK Competent Authority to undertake conformity assessment activities for the purposes of UKCA marking of products to be placed on the GB market. It is planned that ERCT will be a CAB, with UKAS acting as the UK Competent Authority on behave of the UK Government.

A UK Notified Body is a conformity assessment body appointed by the UK Government to undertake conformity assessment activities for the purpose of Notified Body activity in Northern Ireland. UKNI Marking.

The withdrawal of the UK from the European Union, completed on 31 December 2020, means that UK bodies can no longer take part in activities for the purposes of CE Marking (with the exception of goods destined for the Northern Ireland market ), as Notified Bodies have to be established in an EU member state. Therefore, to address the needs of the GB market, the UK Government has introduced the UK Conformity Assessed (UKCA) system as part of the domestic legal framework introduced for mandatory certification of products being placed on the GB market.

Approved Bodies for UKCA purposes must be established under UK law and have legal personality. Established means that the Approved Body must be a registered UK legal entity (via Companies House or equivalent) with a registered UK address. It shall be this legal entity that holds UKAS accreditation, and which shall be appointed as an Approved Body.