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Accreditation: Delivering a safer world
9 June 2018 marks World Accreditation Day as a global initiative, jointly established by the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC), to raise awareness of the importance of accreditation.
This year’s theme focuses focuses on how accreditation delivers a safer world.
The expectation of safe workplaces, safe products, safe transport, safe food, in fact all aspects of our lives is universally shared. Statistics however show that the expectation is not being matched by the reality. Closing this gap is a vital consideration for government, regulators and businesses, aiming to keep people safer in their work, their domestic life, their journeys and all other parts of their lives.
As in previous years, the day will be celebrated across the world with the hosting of major national events, seminars, and press and media coverage, to provide the opportunity to explore how accreditation can help deliver a safer world and to support businesses, government and regulators to find standards, conformity assessment and accreditation tools to support them in this goal.
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Joint Statement from Xiao Jianhua and Merih Malmqvist NilssonNote: The French and Spanish translations of the Brochure are available from the French page and the Spanish page of the ILAC website. A video in English is available from here.
9 June 2017 marks World Accreditation Day as a global initiative, jointly established by the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC), to raise awareness of the importance of accreditation.
This year’s theme focuses on delivering confidence in construction and the built environment. To help explain the use of accredited conformity assessment, the Public Sector Assurance website www.publicsectorassurance.org has been established to showcase different global examples where accreditation has been used to support construction and the built environment.
As in previous years, the day will be celebrated across the world with the hosting of major national events, seminars, and press and media coverage, to communicate the value of accreditation to those working in the sector including building owners, operators, contractors, manufacturers, designers, architects, and structural and civil engineers. As well as demonstrating how accreditation is used by policy makers, local authorities and regulators to support construction-based regulation, environmental protection, public safety, fraud prevention, public trust and innovation.
Accreditation: A Global Tool to Support Public Policy
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Note: The World Accreditation Day video includes subtitles in over 10 languages which can be accessed using the Youtube Link above. The Spanish translation of the Video and Brochure are available from the Spanish page of the ILAC website. Chinese and Japanese translations of the World Accreditation Day supporting materials are available from the Chinese page and the Japanese page.
9 June 2016 marked World Accreditation Day as a global initiative, jointly established by the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC), to raise awareness of the importance of accreditation.
2016 focused on how accreditation can be a global tool to support public policy for all areas in the public sector – national and local government, regulators. To help explain the use of accredited conformity assessment, the Public Sector Assurance website was established to showcase different global examples where accreditation has been used to support public policy efforts.
As in previous years, the day was celebrated across the world with the hosting of major national events, seminars, and press and media coverage, to communicate the value of accreditation to Government, Regulators and the leaders of the business community.
Accreditation: Supporting the Delivery of Health and Social Care
Joint Statement from Peter Unger and Randy Dougherty - print version
Joint Statement from Peter Unger and Randy Dougherty - web version
9 June 2015 marked World Accreditation Day as a global initiative, jointly established by the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC), to raise awareness of the importance of accreditation.
2015’s theme focused on how accreditation can support the delivery of health and social care.
As in previous years, the day was celebrated across the world with the hosting of major national events, seminars, and press and media coverage, to communicate the value of accreditation to Government, Regulators and the leaders of the business community.
Accreditation: Delivering Confidence in the Provision of Energy
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June 9 2014 marked World Accreditation Day, a global initiative established by the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) to raise awareness of the importance of the importance of accreditation-related activities.
2014 focused on the role of accreditation in providing confidence in the provision of energy.
As in previous years, the day was celebrated across the world with the hosting of major national events, seminars and press and media coverage, to communicate the value of accreditation to Government, Regulators and the leaders of the business community.
Accreditation: Facilitating World Trade
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9th June 2013 marked World Accreditation Day, a global initiative jointly established by the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) to raise awareness of the importance of accreditation-related activities.
As in previous years, the day was celebrated across the world with the hosting of major national events, seminars and press and media coverage, to communicate the value of accreditation to government, regulators and the leaders of the business community.
The theme of the day in 2013 focused on how accreditation is used to support global trade. Nationally, there is a greater recognition of accreditation, particularly from regulators, who are adopting accreditation as a mechanism to deliver a multi-discipline solution that can support or act as an alternative to legislation.
World Accreditation Day provides an excellent opportunity for the accreditation community to extend its influence and demonstrate how accreditation can be applied to a wide variety of assessment, approval or evaluation tasks that can be used to address a wide range of sectors.
Accreditation: Supporting safe food and clean drinking water
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June 9 2012 marked World Accreditation Day, a global initiative jointly established by the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) to raise awareness of the importance of accreditation-related activities.
Supporting the work of Regulators
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June 9 2011 marked World Accreditation Day, a global initiative jointly established by the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) to raise awareness of the importance of accreditation-related activities.
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June 9 2010 marked World Accreditation Day, a global initiative jointly established by the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) to raise awareness of the importance of accreditation-related activities.
Global acceptance of accredited certificates is a central pillar of accreditation as the harmonization of assessment requirements and processes at a worldwide level provides businesses and regulators with confidence that products entering the market conform to specification, meet national legal and regulatory requirements, and will therefore serve to protect public interests in general.
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June 9 2009 marked International Accreditation Day, a global initiative jointly established by the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) to raise awareness of the importance of accreditation-related activities.