Outsourcing services
Most certification testing is performed in our own testing laboratory within “TEST MEBEL” LLC, accredited to O‘z DSt ISO/IEC 17025:2019 — this is an internal resource. If certain tests in the test programme are outside our laboratory’s scope of accreditation, they are outsourced to an external accredited laboratory (O‘z DSt ISO/IEC 17065, 6.2.2; PSK-01, PSK-08).
Outsourced
- tests outside our own laboratory’s scope of accreditation — only to laboratories whose scope covers the relevant products and methods and which are on the list of laboratories evaluated and approved by the body.
Not outsourced
- review of the application and decision on it;
- review of evaluation results;
- decisions on granting (refusing), suspending and withdrawing certificates.
When using outsourcing, the body
- retains responsibility for all outsourced work;
- concludes a written contract with the laboratory including confidentiality and conflict-of-interest requirements;
- ensures that the laboratory and its staff have not been involved in the applicant’s activities and that there is no risk to impartiality;
- checks the laboratory’s accreditation status and subjects each test report to incoming verification (PSK-12);
- informs the applicant in advance of the use of outsourcing by naming the laboratory in the decision on the application; if the applicant objects, another accredited laboratory is engaged;
- monitors laboratories at least once a year.
The list of partner laboratories is available on request.