List of certification bodies and registrars, assisting with selection for ISO

ASSISTING WITH REGISTRAR Selection, listing / directory - As a courtesy to our visitors, we assist by answering your questions that relate to the Selection of Certification - Registration Bodies and Registrars, and Accreditation Entities. Need help in Certification Body or Registrar selection? Need an objective and unbiased list of Certification Bodies and Registrars? [Contact us...]

This page is to objectively assist you in the selection of a registration - certification body or registrar for certification of your organisation's management system. Please note that we do not endorse any one specific certificatiion - registration body or a subsidiary (registrar) or accreditation protocol, as this is an informative site - upon requesting assistance with selection our policy requires we advise you a minimum of three (3) certification - registration bodies or thir sibsidiaries registrars. Also, visit our page on changing the Registrar, may be of interest and beneficial in providing other relevant information. Informative page, Spanish & English

For inclusion to our list a registrar and/or certification - registration body must meet the following criteria:

Customer Satisfaction - We have verified with client / customers, through either personal contact or phone conversation, level of satisfaction given prior to, during and throughout registration. Also we verify for other such as auditors meet the requirements set forth by the specific management system on the basis of ISO/IEC 17021 and that their competence is internationally recognized to conduct assessment - audits.

Ethics -We have verified for issues or practices that are ethical assuring thatthese do not jeopardize your certificate of registration, such as; (a) performing audits with no competence, auditors in training and billing the organization... (b) providing consulting or in-house training and registration to the same organisation, and (c) conducting an excessive number of audits within a period of 12 months (as ethics code dictates construe as consulting the limit expectation is three per annum).

Note: If your organization provides certification and consulting as welll in-house training and advice, need not to request inclusion to the list of recommended certification - registration bodies and registrars, regardless if accreditation is granted combining consulting and certification.

Following the international accreditation requirements and scheme The based criteria of operations are ISO/IEC 17021, ISO/TS 22003, ISO/IEC 27006 and other that relate to the requirements of ISO/IEC 17024:2003] While accreditation is not an imperative requirement for conformity assessment bodies, accreditation provides confidence in certification. Thereof we list registrars and certification - registration bodies which we have verified their integrity in regards to accreditation and which does not jeopardize your certificate of registration. The validity of your certificate, if these bodies do not follow the basic accreditation requirements ISO/IEC 17021 (as we indicate in the listing column on the right) and protocol, as set by the standards published by the International Organisation for Standardisation for accreditation protocols ISO/IEC 17011.

E.g. We verify that a Registration Body or Registrar's business units (of a centralized registration body) operations follows practices and operating criteria as set by International Standards). Also we verify that that these bodies do not provide consulting to the same organization under registration, construe as conflict of interest.

There is no specific preference in the order that the list of registrars and certification - registration bodies are shown.

Standards...

Registrars - Registration Bodies (Regions or limitations recommended, links are established for your convenience) - Please notice that there is inclusion to a specific region and not necessarily all regions wherein operate.

ISO 9001, OSHMS - OSHAS 18001, ISO 14001, HACCP-9000^®

NSF International (North America) (ISO/IEC 17021 and operating certification body
Note: limitation, request NSF employee-personnel for conducting audits not subcontracted personnel.

ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO/IEC 20000, ISO 13485, "CE" Mark services, TS 16949, AS9100, inquire on ISO 22000, QC 080000

TÜV SÜD (ISO/IEC 17021 and operating certification body) USA, Canada, Asia, Europe

ISO 9001, ISO 13485, ISO 14001 - QC 080000, ISO 22000, HACCP MS, OSHMS^® (OHSAS 18001 | ILO-OSH based), ISMS^® ISO/IEC 27001, IT ISO/IEC 20000, Social Accountability (SrA), and per request combines Federal Regulations

BRS (ISO/IEC 17021, 27006 and ISO/TS 22003 operating certification body of auditors ISO/IEC 17024) - Regions includes North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Euro Asia, and Asia-Pacific

ISO 9001, TL-9000, ISO 14001, inquire on ISO 9000-3, Tick-IT / ITQS ISO/IEC 20000, and ISO/IEC 27001, TS 16949, and ISO 13485 - CMDCAS, and Canadian Regulations

QMI (Canada, USA and regions of South America)

ISO 9001, ISO 22000, ISO 14001, EMAS 761/2001, SA 8000, "CE" Mark services, ISO 13485, TS 16949, HACCP, OHSAS 18001 / OSHMS, (inquire information ISO 27001), TL 9000, AS9100, QC 080000, inquire on ISMS ISO/IEC 27001

DNV (Dert Norske Veritas) (Europe, North America, Asia, Middle-East and Argentina)

ISO 9001, ISO 22000, ISO 14001, EMAS, AS9100, TS 16949, TL 9000, HACCP, OSHMS, OHSAS 18001, ISO 13485, ISO 22000, QC 080000, "CE" Mark Services

LlOYD's Register Quality Assurance Limited (USA, Latin America, and Europe) - Operating its own body for certification of professionals

ISO 9001, ITQMS, ISO 14001, ISO 13485, "CE" Mark services, TL 9000, EMAS, inquire information ISO/IEC 27001 and OSHMS OHSAS 18001

NSAI, National Standard Authority of Ireland (Europe and North America)

ISO 9001, TL 9000, TS 16949, AS9100, Tick-IT, AS9100

NQA (North America)

ISO 9001, CE Marking, TS 16949, QC 080000

DQS (Europe, North America, Asia, and Mexico)

ISO 9001, QS 9000, AS9000 and ASME

HSB Registrar Services (North America, Asia Pacific and Colombia) - mainly for the metal and heavy industry (steel related) sector

ISO 9001, TS 16949, ISO 14001, EMAS 761/2001, OSHMS / OHSAS 18001, Tick-IT, ISO/IEC 20000, ISO 13485 CMDCAS, ISO 22000, "CE" Mark services, TL 9000, ISMS ISO/IEC 27001 and others

BSi British Standard Institution Quality Assurance (Europe, Brazil, Canada, and USA)

QMS ISO 9001

QSR, Quality Systems Registrar (North America)

ISO 9001, EMAS, ISO 14001, EMAS 761/2001, ISO 22000, "CE" Mark, TS 16949

AFNOR - French Association for Quality Assurance (Europe, Middle-East and some regions of the Americas) linked to AFAQ

AS9100, TS 16949, TL 9000, "CE" Marking, ISO 13485 CMDCAS, and (inquire about SA 8000, and OSHMS and OHSAS 18001)... ISMS ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 20000

ITS - Intertek Services [Europe (East and West), North America, and Latin America]

ISO 9001, ISO 14001, EMAS 761/2001, AS9100, TS 16949, SA 8000, OHSMS / OHSAS 18001, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 20000, TL 9000, ISO 22000, QC 080000

BVQI (North America and Europe)

EMS ISO 14001

AWM , Advanced Waste Management Systems, Inc. (North America, Latin America and Europe)

ISO 9001 and ISO 14001

SQS , Swiss Association for Quality Management (North America, Middle-East and Europe)

ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 13485, HACCP-9000^®

SIRIM QAS, Asia-Pacific and regions of Asia

ISO 9001 and ISO 14001

CESMEC, Chile and "MercoSur" (regions of South America)

ISO 9001, AS9100, ISO 14001, EMAS, "CE" Marking services, OSHMS / OHSAS 18001, TS 16949, ISO 13485, TL 9000 (inquire on ISMS ISO/IEC 27001)

SGS - (Europe, USA, Canada, and some regions of Latin America)

ISO 9001, OHSAS 18001

IAPMO - plumbing and relateing business sector for USA, Canada, Europe and Asia Pacific

From time-to-time we receive inquiries requesting inclusion to our list, and provide meet the requirements set-forth above, we update this portal frequently. Since we provide this service free of charge, we will verify references on the basis of the criterion at top of page and within a time that logistically allow us to verify. We reserve the right to inclusion and we may verify with companies others than those presented for verification.

For inclusion, the listing of Registrars / Certification - Registration Bodies operate under an accreditation protocol.

Please contact us through e-mail or phone for additional information. As a commitment to industry and free of charge, you may also request us to research for your specific type of industry (this request can be focuse on your company's type of industry), product/service and/or market objectives. We are to provide objective information.

As we obtain information we will update our listing.

Disclaimer:

BULLTEK L TD does not endorse no specific Certification - Registration Body or any of its Registrar, the listing is based on information and feedback objectively obtained. Upon your request, once you identify your organization, country and process activities, we can objectively recommend a minimum of 3 Certification - Registration Bodies or Registrars to assist you in deciding.

Please note that we do not include in our listing or recommend registrars or registration bodies if we obtain information / evidence that it is not meeting any one of the three (3) criteria we list (see top of page). Thereof we may exclude certification or accreditation bodies that have or conduct unethical practices. Exclusion of accreditation may occur when evidence demonstrates continuous pattern of unethical practices.