How testing, inspection and certification fit together as one system, and where a country is best off investing in its own capability.
Testing, inspection and certification only create trust when they work as one system. This explains how the pieces fit together inside a national quality infrastructure, and where a country gets the most from building its own capability rather than importing it.
How standards, metrology, accreditation, and conformity assessment connect.
The roles of testing and inspection and where each applies.
Product, system, and person certification and their schemes.
How accreditation underpins confidence in assessment bodies.
Fitting the components into a coherent national system.
Assessing gaps and prioritising national capability building.
Staff of standards bodies, accreditation services, and regulators involved in conformity assessment.
A regulator, standards body, laboratory or trade role.
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