SHEQ Institute of Pakistan is registered Company with the ministry of Industry Govt of Pakistan and Chamber of Commerce Lahore Pakistan
We have MOU and Aggreement with the Intertek International Dubai for Auditing and Certification
Collaboration with Pakistan Society of Safety Engineers
We have also joint venture with " Earth Services" Company operating in Pakistan.
What is the difference between the terms "accreditation" and "certification"?
The definition of these terms is given in EN ISO/IEC 17000:2004:
Para 5.6 Accreditation
Third-party attestation related to a conformity assessment body conveying formal demonstration of its competence to carry out specific conformity assessment tasks.
Para 5.5 Certification
Third-party attestation related to products, processes, systems or persons.
An accredited registrar, also called an Accredited Certification Body (CB), is an organisation accredited by a recognised accrediting body for its competence to audit and issue certification confirming that an organisation meets the requirements of a standard (e.g. ISO 9001).
In effect, an accreditation body audits a certification body for its work results and management system much as a certification body audits an organization (supplier) for its work results and management system to increase confidence from a customer's viewpoint.
What is Accreditation?
Accreditation is the formal recognition of a body's competence to conduct a specific activity such as testing or certification. This recognition is based on a specific series of International standards. These standards address critical issues such as competence, impartiality and integrity.
What is Certification?
Procedure by which a third party gives written assurance that a product, process or service conforms to specified requirements.
What is Inspection?
Systematic examination of the extent to which a product, process or service fulfills specified requirements by observation and judgment accompanied as appropriate by measurement, testing or gauging.
What is a Body?
Legal or administrative entity that has specific tasks and composition.
What is Conformity Assessment?
Any activity concerned with determining directly or indirectly that relevant requirements are fulfilled.
What is Calibration?
Set of operations that establish, under specified conditions, the relationship between values of quantities indicated by a measuring instrument or measuring system, or values represented by a material measure or a reference material, and the corresponding values realized by standards.
What is Traceability?
Property of the result of a measurement or the value of a standard whereby it can be related to stated references, usually national or international standards, through an unbroken chain of comparisons all having stated uncertainties.
What is Test?
Technical operation that consists of the determination of one or more characteristics of a given product, process or service according to a specified procedure.
What is Conformity Assessment Body (CAB)?
The Conformity Assessment Body is an entity operating in conformance with the national & international standards relevant to its field of activities. The CAB certifies the manufacturers or the service providers and enterprises, which can demonstrate that they have implemented a system based on a national or international standard such as the Quality Management System (QMS) i.e. ISO-9000 and Environmental Management Systems (EMS) i.e. ISO-14000.
How do I become ISO 9000 accredited?
ISO 9001:2000 is a certification standard. SHEQ Institute provide consultancy to these standardsand carry out the initial assessments to this standards itself for a defined scope of accreditation i.e. relating to specific areas of industry.