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It was a great pleasure this week to return to the annual United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) Annual Lunch, held at the stunning Royal Institute of British Architects. Always a delight to catch up with […]

ISO/IEC 27006-1:2024 has been published. The standard sets out the requirements for accredited certification bodies offering accredited certification based on the requirements of ISO/IEC 27001:2022. UKAS has issued a Technical Bulletin setting out the draft […]

The Federation of Certification Bodies (FCB) is celebrating its 20th year since its establishment in 2004. The FCB membership continues to grow and this is attributed to its success in effective collaboration between certification body […]

It was a pleasure again to chair this week’s Federation of Certification Bodies (FCB) meeting which engages with more than twenty-five of the UK’s UKAS accredited certification bodies in its membership. Of course a key […]

On the 16th October 2020 the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) issued a statement to clarify the recognition of accredited certification within the European Union (EU) from 2021. 16 October, 2020 UKAS has become aware […]

Will remote auditing continue beyond the Covid-19 pandemic? Looks like it might be here to stay. The traditional and somewhat mandatory approach to on-site auditing for management system certification seems to have been put to the […]

As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the IAF has announced migration/transition extensions to for the following management system standards: ISO 45001: 2018 – extended to 30 September 2021 ISO 22000: 2018 – extended to […]

The United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) has released a bulletin which sets out its policy about how accredited certification is being managed over the coming months as a result of the Covid-19 outbreak – see […]