1. Initial inquiry
2. Preliminary response
3. Submission of application request together with an administration fee. Please note: Applicants are expected to comply with the requirements of applicable standards (e.g. ISO 17021). Personnel competence will require demonstration.
4. Application performance of accreditation routines dependent upon assessment and certifying standards.
5. Send manual, procedures, require formats or applicable documents in hard or softcopy.
6. We shall review and comment. If necessary we will require you to amend and respond before the next step.
7. Demonstrate impartiality of your organization in respect of independence from ‘related bodies’ and that it is a legal entity.
8. For the first six assessments you must advise UKASL beforehand that you intend to carry out an assessment.
9. You send us photocopies/e-mails of all the documents related to those assessment and certification assignments demonstrating compliance with the documents that we had earlier reviewed.
10. We shall issue a draft accreditation certificate. Your accreditation reference will be defined at this time. This will be subject to a satisfactory site witness of your activity.
11. UKASL witnesses your next assessment and certification activity.
12. You conduct a further four assessments and send us copies of the paperwork.
13. We witness the next convenient assessment.
14. Issue of accreditation certificate if appropriate.
15. You continue to assess and certificate but don’t need to send paperwork.
16. We will monitor the level of your activity and conduct accreditation reviews to suit.
17. You must inform us of all certification activity.
18. Ongoing surveillance and accreditation including allocation of accreditation numbers.

During the course of the preceding actions we would have expected to conduct several faces to face meetings and visits to your operating premises.

1. Issue of accreditation certificate if appropriate.
2. You continue to assess and certificate but don’t need to send paperwork.
3. We will monitor the level of your activity and conduct accreditation reviews to suit.
4. You must inform us of all certification activity.
5. Ongoing surveillance and accreditation including allocation of accreditation numbers.