BS EN ISO/IEC 17024:2003

Conformity assessment - General requirements for bodies operating certification of persons

General requirements for bodies operating, developing and maintaining certification scheme for persons.

This International Standard specifies requirements for a body certifying persons against specific requirements, including the development and maintenance of a certification scheme for persons.

This standard has been drawn up with the objective of achieving and promoting a globally accepted benchmark for organizations operating certification of persons. Certification of persons is one means of providing assurance that the certified person meets the requirements of the certification scheme. Confidence in the respective certification schemes is achieved by means of a globally accepted process of assessment, subsequent surveillance and periodic re-assessments of the competence of certified persons.

This standard specifies requirements which ensure that certification bodies operating certification schemes for persons operate in a consistent, comparable and reliable manner. The requirements in this standard are to be considered as general requirements for bodies operating certification schemes for persons and therefore may have to be supplemented in response to additional demonstrated market need/desire (i.e. improvement of the profession) or specific government requirements (i.e. protection of the public).

BS EN ISO/IEC 17024 specifies requirements for a body certifying persons against specific requirements, including the development and maintenance of a certification scheme for persons.

This International Standard supersedes BS 7513:1989 which is withdrawn.

This standard includes the following cross-references:

ISO/IEC Guide 2:1996 and ISO 9000:2000.