Contains requirements for the competence of bodies performing inspection and for the impartiality and consistency of their inspection activities.

 

 

This International Standard has an objective of promoting confidence in bodies performing inspection.

 

• Inspection bodies carry out assessments on behalf of private clients, their parent organizations, or authorities, with the objective of providing information about the conformity of inspected items with regulations, standards, specifications, inspection schemes or contracts. Inspection parameters include matters of quantity, quality, safety, fitness for purpose, and continued safety compliance of installations or systems in operation. The general requirements with which these bodies are required to comply in order that their services are accepted by clients and by supervisory authorities are harmonized in this International Standard.

• This International Standard covers the activities of inspection bodies whose work can include the examination of materials, products, installations, plants, processes, work procedures or services, and the
  determination of their conformity with requirements and the subsequent reporting of results of these activities to clients and, when required, to authorities. Inspection can concern all stages during the lifetime
  of these items, including the design stage. Such work normally requires the exercise of professional judgement in performing inspection, in particular when assessing conformity with general requirements.

 Normative references
 Terms and definitions
 Inspection examination of a product, process, service or installation or their design and determination of its conformity with specific requirements or, on the basis of professional judgment, with general requirements.
 Product result of a process.
 Process set of interrelated or interacting activities which transforms inputs into outputs.
 Service result of at least one activity necessarily performed at the interface between the supplier and the customer, which is generally intangible.
 Inspection body that performs inspection. Note 1 to entry: An inspection body can be an organization, or part of an organization.
 Inspection system rules, procedures, and management for carrying out inspection.
 Inspection scheme inspection system to which the same specified requirements, specific rules and procedures apply.
 Impartiality presence of objectivity.
 Appeal request by the provider of the item of inspection to the inspection      body for reconsideration by that body of a decision it has made relating to that item.
 Complaint expression of dissatisfaction, other than appeal, by any person or organization to an inspection body, relating to the activities of that body, where a response is expected.