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Accredit a calibration laboratory

A reproducible accreditation finding and published competence scope.

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What this procedure decides

Accredit a laboratory for a reproducible and bounded measurement scope.

Assessors examine methods, custody, uncertainty, reproducibility and continued competence. Sector deployment permission remains separate.

Acting in the right capacity

Companies and cooperatives

Suppliers, licensed operators, enterprises, worker-owned organisations and professional providers. Name the legal or cooperative operator, your authority to act and any supplier or utility interfaces. Commercial, technical and civic permissions remain separate findings.

Research and civic organisations

Laboratories, universities, observatories, associations, cultural organisations and public-interest networks. Name the accountable organisation, research or civic purpose, relevant ethics or protection review and the custodian who can authorise source access.

Public administrations

Local councils, regional offices, Union bodies and authorised public-service delegates. Name the originating power, receiving scope, authorised delegate, reserved decisions and the event at which the other office accepts a duty.

Prepare assessable evidence

  1. Competence evidence

    Identify the source custodian, version and purpose of competence evidence. Competence, reference traceability and independent test results establish what the laboratory can demonstrate. A successful test cannot support an unlimited certificate.

  2. Measurement traceability

    For measurement traceability, name the receiving scope and any outstanding acceptance. Explain a missing or disputed element instead of silently replacing it with an unrelated record.

  3. Independent test results

    For independent test results, provide the independently assessable finding or agreed alternative. State its conditions, expiry or material-change trigger; a favourable summary is not a substitute for the source.

Alternative evidence and a disputed source

Identify the missing element, its custodian and the alternative you can provide. Preserve conflicting versions and explain the difference. The receiving office states what it can establish and which question remains open.

Read the result before accepting its scope

Accreditation within stated scope, conditional scope, further testing or reasoned refusal.

Material method or reference changes require the declared review. Retain calibration and revision histories for receiving users.

Who can use this service

An accountable laboratory, standards institution or public measurement body seeking accreditation for a reproducible and bounded scope. Product deployment acceptance remains a separate decision.

Lead institution
Standards, Time & Measurement Authority
Receiving endpoint
Standards, Time & Measurement Authority
Service class
Governance & association
Result
A reproducible accreditation finding and published competence scope.

The applicable safeguard

A standard, calibration or accreditation does not approve deployment beyond its supported scope

Prepare a request

The online workflow supports residents and authorized representatives, operators, researchers and public delegates. A saved receipt stays on this browser. The PDF packet provides a fillable offline record.

Timing, costs and review

The local register issues a receipt when the request is recorded. Published service clocks use receipt and verified-completeness events; numeric deadlines remain charter decisions in this fictional edition.

Any fee, exemption or numeric deadline must be published by the competent institution. This edition does not invent a currency or fee schedule.

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