# Presentation: 362288

## Presentation to NIST
on
US Participation in CASCO 

10 October 2002

Lane Hallenbeck
Vice President
Conformity Assessment

***on***
***US Participation in CASCO ***
***10 October 2002***
***Lane Hallenbeck***
***Vice President***
***Conformity Assessment***

## ANSI Conformity Assessment

**committee administration**

**CAPC**  (Conformity Assessment Policy Committee)
- ANSI board level policy direction (previously BCCA)
**ICAC ** (International Conformity Assessment Committee)
- Coordinates US inputs to ISO CASCO
**ACC, PCAC**  (Accreditation Committees)
- Manages accredited certifier programs for product and personnel
- ACC attends to FCC/NIST accreditation for telecom cert bodies (TCBs)
**JOB**  (ANSI-RAB NAP Joint Oversight Board)
- Bridge between ANSI and RAB managing policy and finances of NAP
- Direction for ANSI-RAB accreditation of ISO 9k & 14k Registrars
**EMS**  (ANSI-RAB Environmental Management System Council)
- Decision making body for accreditation of ISO 14000 Registrars

## Organizational relationships:

- ANSI BoD

- RAB BoD

- JOB

- ANSI CA
- Dept

- RAB Ops

- CAPC

- ACC

- PCAC

- ICAC

- OMF

- CMF

- GMF

- CIF

- IPC

- NPC

- EMS

- QMS

- CPIF

- ISO 14000

- Aud
- Cert

- ISO 9000

- Product

- Personnel

- CASCO

- Training

- Auditors

- CASCO

- IAF

- USNC

- IAAC

- PAC

## Conformity Assessment Framework and ANSI

- Standards
- 	Assessment
- 		Self-Declaration
- 			Certification
- 				**Accreditation**
- 					Recognition
- 						Acceptance

## Who ANSI Accredits:

- Product Certifiers				-	Yes
- Management System Registrars		-	Yes
- Standards Developers			-	Yes
- Personnel Certifiers			-	Yes
- Laboratories					-	No
- Inspection Bodies				-	No

## Accreditations

- 	          *(as of September 2002)*
- ANSI-RAB NAP
- 67 QMS Registrars (ISO 9000)
- 35 EMS Registrars (ISO 14000)
- ANSI PRODUCT CB’s
- 32, including
- 15 Telecom Cert Bodies (TCB)
- ANSI PERSONNEL CB’s
- 5 in pilot program

**Accreditations**

## Conformity Assessment

**Requirements**

- Accreditors		ISO/IEC Guide 61
- 				      (future ISO/IEC 17011)
- Systems Registrars	ISO/IEC Guides 62 & 66
- 				      (future ISO/IEC 17021)
- Product Certifiers	ISO/IEC Guide 65
- Personnel Certifiers	ISO/IEC FDIS 17024

## Personnel Standards and Conformity Assessment

- Industry, government, associations and professionals express a need for:
-  criteria equivalence
-  comprehensive examination
-  competent examiners
-  recognized certification
-  international acceptance

## ISO/IEC CD 17024 

*(for Personnel Certification Bodies)*

- Requirements include:
-  Organizational structure, Subcontractor control
-  Management system (internal audit, mgmt review)
-  Records, Confidentiality
-  Examiner competence, Examination criteria
-  Certification, Surveillance, Re-certification process
-  Use of certificates, logos, marks
-  Obligations of certified persons

## ANSI Accreditation

** ****of Personnel Certifiers**

- Per ISO/IEC 17024 (FDIS; publish year-end)
- Accreditation process:
-  Application
-  Systems audit on-site
-  Psychometrics evaluation
-  Accreditation committee decision
-  Surveillance

## Convergence/connectivity of standards

-    System
- + Process
- + Product
- _+ Personnel _
- = Confidence

## e.g., ISO 9001/2000

**e.g., ISO 9001/2000**

## Understanding and Educating

-   National Standards Strategy – 2000
-   National Conformity Assessment
-    Principles – 2002

## Information Sources

*Standards Action:  *
- _[http://www.ansi.org/rooms/room_14/](http://www.ansi.org/rooms/room_14/)_* *
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- www.ansi.org
- Reference Library:  procedures, forms, updates
- _[www.NSSN.org](http://www.nssn.org/)_:  database of standards including ANS
- Lane Hallenbeck E-mail:  lhallenb@ansi.org