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Third Party NELAP Accreditation
The Time is Now
Bruce Godfrey
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Accreditation Goals
• Ensure conformance to program
requirements & standards
• Detect and correct substandard
practices
• Ensure protections for end users of
measurement data
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Trends• User perception of decreasing quality of
government AB capabilities & results
• Increasingly successful and capable
Nongovernment ABs available
• Shrinking federal & state budgets
• User perception of lack of AB control
and program accountability at TNI
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NELAP Today
• Efficient means to access state markets
• Inadequate for federal agency buyers
• Uneven state participation and commitment
• Gov ABs providing poor service at high cost
• Insufficient program accountability for ABs
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State ABs
• Many perform very well, some present serious issues
• Resource constraints significantly affect audits, oversight
of audits, and follow up on issues discovered in audits
• NELAP creates Two Tier accreditation system
• Inconsistent standards at state tier
• Majority of customers are small municipal/utility labs
• None are ISO 17011 compliant/ILAC recognized
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Success Story: DoD Audits • Timely: Scheduled in advance, 3 days two assessors, reports issued
at exit debrief, most assessments completed on-time
• Professional: Quality of assessors is generally excellent
• Impartial – no potential for conflicts of interest
• Thorough – Standards based, focused on QA systems & method
conformance
• Cost Effective – Not inexpensive, but efficient & effective. Add value,
reduce user costs by increasing labs in program
• No Surprises – ISO 17011 compliant AB process. Issues discussed
& resolved during audit. Daily debriefs, effective systems for
resolving disputes
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“The Big Idea”Bring private ISO17011 ILAC Recognized ABs into NELAP as
primary accreditors of laboratories
What’s in it for ACIL labs?
•NELAP accreditation from a single organization that addresses all
national and international conformity assessment needs
•Lower costs,
What’s in it for TNI-NELAP?
Government agency signatories, ISO/ILAC recognition
Legitimacy, Relevance, Recognition
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The ACIL Approach
• Separate licensing and accreditation services at states
• Choice: either primary state AB or an ISO 17011/ILAC
recognized non-Government AB
• Fees charged are appropriate to the level of effort
• Accommodate unique state requirements
• Loss of accreditation means loss of license(s)
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Benefits
• Improve assessment consistency & standard interpretation
• Likely to reduce state’s staffing costs
• Probably reduce costs for commercial labs
• National and international NELAP relevance/recognition
• Probably save commercial lab users & taxpayers $
• Improved lab access to NELAP
• Accommodation of unique state requirements
• Likely to increase states participating in NELAP
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Concerns
• Shift state AB costs to smaller
municipal/utility labs
• Reduced state regulatory “control”
• Outsourcing state government function
• Minutiae of implementation
• Loss of state expertise/capability
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Design Considerations
• States recognize ISO 17011 compliant NACLA and/or
ILAC and/or TNI recognized ABs
• Level of effort based fees imposed by states
• Labs are free to choose from among several AB’s
• Sustainable mechanism (TNI) to ensure development
and improvement of the NELAP standard
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Nongovernment Accreditation Works!
• Washington
• New Mexico
Other states moving this way….
• New Jersey, Florida, Minnesota and Texas
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Action Items• Support TNI recognition of private ABs by 2014
• ISO 17011 compliant and ILAC/NACLA recognized
• Separate licensing and accreditation functions at State ABs
• “Call Out” errant state ABs, ask TNI to discipline them.
• Call out TNI for not disciplining their public AB’s
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Action Items II• Insist State ABs adhere to NELAP standards
• Continue discussion of these issues with state
AB’s and state legislators
• Advocate level of effort licensing fees
• ACIL nongovernmental accreditation activities
• Provide financial support for legal/lobby efforts
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Conclusion
• ACIL labs need and want NELAP as a means to enter out of home state markets
• NELAP needs nongovernment ABs
• Labs want nongovernment ABs only at costs no more than what we’re paying for state AB accreditation services today