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UKAC is the United Kingdom’s accreditation body. We provide accreditation services for management system certification bodies, ensuring that they are competent to assess and certify organizations against internationally recognized standards.
UKAC accreditation is a valuable asset for management system certification bodies. It demonstrates to potential clients that your organization is competent, impartial, and operates in accordance with internationally recognized standards. UKAC accreditation also gives you access to the WAB (Worldwide Accreditation Board), which means that your certificates are accepted by over 100 accreditation bodies worldwide.
Profile
UKAC (UNITED KINGDOM ACCREDITATION COUNCIL) is a nonprofit, public-benefit and one of the leading accreditation bodies in the United States that has been providing accreditation services. UKAC accredits various companies and organizations including governmental entities, commercial businesses, and professional associations. UKAC accreditation programs are based on recognized national and international standards that ensure domestic and/or global acceptance of its accreditations.
UKAC is adhering to accreditation criteria and to undergo periodic onsite evaluation to determine ongoing compliance with ISO/IEC Standard 17011, General Requirements for accreditation bodies accrediting conformity assessment bodies (CABs).
Benefits of the accreditation :
- reducing compliance and transaction costs,
- reducing risk,
- streamlining operations,
- breaking down barriers to trade, which provides greater access to foreign markets,
- providing assurance that goods and services sold are safe and can be used for their intended purpose.
Accreditation adds value to the ever growing and increasingly complicated market chain in many ways, including by providing a symbol of assurance that certifiers and inspectors are independent and competent to perform their duties.
Accredited certification and inspection of products, processes and people—called conformity assessment—has a ripple effect through the market chain, right to the consumer. It gives consumers confidence that their purchases meet specified standards and are quality assured. This includes retailers, wholesalers and individual consumers.
Accreditation is a means to establish confidence in the quality of products and services worldwide, through mutual acceptance of results of services provided in compliance with relevant standards of accreditation.
Accreditation is a symbol of assurance—a valuable asset in itself. The UKAC symbol is a mark of reliability and quality. It flags that a certifier or inspector can be counted on to impartially determine if organisations, products and people conform to specified requirements. This gives the competitive edge to the certifiers, inspectors and their client organizations.
Mission
UKAC’s mission statement is :
- To ensure national and international confidence in the UKAC accreditation schemes
- To meet public and private businesses need to document quality and thus ensure confidence in their products and services
UKAC Structure
UKAC is led by a team of experienced executives who are responsible for ensuring that the company complies with all applicable laws and regulations, as well as its own articles of association, contracts with the managing director, and shareholder resolutions.
In addition to overseeing UKAC’s accreditation operations, the management team also represents the company’s interests abroad.
Board Composition
The following Council Composition assume a supervisory function for UKAC in addition to management:
- Accreditation Committee
- Technical Committee
International membership
Currently UKAC is a member of WAB (Worldwide Accreditation Board) and UKAC is in to the planning to get the membership of International Accreditation Forum (IAF), International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) and European co-operation for Accreditation (EA).
What is the MLA?
The Multilateral Agreement (MLA) is an agreement between accrediting boards that acknowledges the credibility and equivalency of accredited conformity assessment results from the signatory region as well as accreditations.
A successful assessment as part of the accrediting board’s peer review procedure is a necessary condition for an accreditation body to be granted MLA status.
The regions covered by the MLA are also determined by this procedure. The IAF and ILAC are the international organizations that recognize the MLA. This means that the signatories to the multilateral IAF MLA and ILAC MRA agreements also accept as comparable test and inspection reports, calibration certificates, or certificates from entities accredited by a recognized MLA signatory.
Mutual recognition
of accreditation
Mutual recognition of the products and services provided by recognized entities is one of the main goals of the worldwide accreditation network, as it helps to avoid numerous accreditations and technological challenges.
Multilateral treaties and agreements (MRAs or MLAs) between national accrediting agencies and international accrediting organizations enable this. It establishes acceptance on a national and worldwide scale, for example, that any laboratory accredited by UKAC is capable of carrying out specific tests, test kinds, or calibrations competently.
Complaint
UKAC Considers complaints very seriously and deal with all verified and fit to entertain complaints. The UKAC Policy for the complaints as follows :
- UKAC takes complaints very seriously and investigates all verified and eligible complaints.
- UKAC only entertains complaints from its accredited clients and complaints related to UKAC procedures and policies.
- UKAC keeps the complainant’s information confidential.
- UKAC takes a positive approach to managing complaints, keeping both the complainant and the respondent in mind.
- UKAC strives to resolve complaints in a timely manner.
How To Make Complaints
Kindly write us at complaints@uk-ac.com clearly and precisely.
Our Approach
We believe that investing should be about helping you reach your financial goals, whatever they may be. That’s why our multi-asset investment approach is focused on what matters most: you.
At the heart of our approach is portfolio management. We believe that successful portfolio management requires five closely connected capabilities:
- Deep understanding of markets and economies: We invest in a wide range of asset classes, so it’s important to understand the complex forces that drive them.
- Rigorous investment process: We use a disciplined process to identify and select investments that we believe have the potential to meet our clients’ goals.
- Active risk management: We carefully manage risk to help protect our clients’ capital and maximize their returns.
- Global perspective: We invest in markets around the world, which gives us a unique perspective on how to build diversified portfolios that can withstand different market conditions.
- Close collaboration with clients: We work closely with our clients to understand their individual needs and goals, and to develop customized investment solutions that meet them.
When these five capabilities come together, we believe we have the foundation to help our clients achieve their financial goals. We are committed to being the world’s leading provider of multi-asset solutions, and to helping our clients improve their financial security.