Welcome to The United Kingdom Accreditation Service
About Accreditation
Information explaining accreditation.
Information regarding UKAS Accredited organisations.
For direct access to Accredited Laboratories please visit www.ukas.org
How to attain UKAS accreditation.
Information for UKAS customers.
Sanctions: Statistical data and list of suspended and withdrawn organsiations
About UKAS
The United Kingdom Accreditation Service is the sole national accreditation body recognised by government to assess, against internationally agreed standards, organisations that provide certification, testing, inspection and calibration services.
Accreditation by UKAS demonstrates the competence, impartiality and performance capability of these evaluators.
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News
Website Downtime Notification May 13
New EU legal framework for accreditation May 9
European Commission DG Enterprise and Industry Consultation: May 2
Satisfaction Survey Q4 2007 Apr 22
Business Continuity Management - Project Update Apr 18
Accreditation for Organisations performing work to BS EN 14181:2004 Apr 16
Changes to Accreditation for Stack Emissions Monitoring Organisations Apr 16
DEFRA endorses UKAS accredited approach Apr 1
International Accreditation Day Apr 1
Sub-Contract Experts Needed Mar 10
New Prices for 2008 Feb 27
Asbestos Bodies: Clarification and Update on UKAS Requirements (July Update) Aug 4
Services
UKAS offers the following services:
Accreditation: for testing and calibration laboratories, certification and inspection bodies and for proficiency testing schemes
Assessment for Directives and Regulations
Development
Training
Information Centre
Here you will find all our published documents including Publications, technical articles, brochures, Update newsletter and application forms. Media Centre and useful links are also available here.
UKAS Publications (M4) list Edition 73 (June 2005) now available. There have been changes since Edition 72.
Forthcoming Events
Information explaining accreditation.
Information regarding UKAS Accredited organisations.
For direct access to Accredited Laboratories please visit www.ukas.org
How to attain UKAS accreditation.
Information for UKAS customers.
Statistical data and organisations to which sanctions currently apply.