Accreditation is a process in which certification of ability and competency, authority, or credibility is demonstrates. Organizations that issuance credentials or certify third parties refers to the standards are themselves formally accredited by accreditation bodies. therefore they are consistently known as “accredited certification bodies”. The accreditation method warrant and make certain that their certification practices are acceptable and admissible, typically meaning that they are competent to test and certify third parties, behave ethically and employ admissible quality assurance.
In everyday accent and expression or tongue the terms Accreditation and Certification are often used commutable and interchangeably. Although, these terms have specific logics.
ISO’s formal definition of accreditation is “third-party attestation related to a conformity assessment body conveying formal demonstration of its competence to carry out specific conformity assessment tasks.” (ISO/ IEC 17000:2004)
Certification is “third-party attestation related to products, processes, systems or persons.” (ISO/ IEC 17000:2004)
Accredited Organizations are known as Conformity Assessment Bodies (or CABs).
Accredited CABs provide certification and inspection services to organizations.Most Commonly the certified management systems