National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia

www.nata.asn.au

AWTA Product Testing is accredited by NATA to ISO/IEC 17025 in the following areas:

  • Accreditation No. 983 - Chemical Testing
  • Accreditation No. 985 - Mechanical Testing
  • Accreditation No. 1356 - Heat & Temperature Measurement

To view these accreditations use the link provided below to go to the accreditations page on the NATA website. Complete the search form as shown (see right) and click on the Search button

View accreditations on NATA Website

A copy of the Division's NATA accreditation certificates can be downloaded from the link below.

AWTA Product Testing NATA Accreditations

   Nata Accreditation Search Form

NATA accreditation to ISO/IEC 17025:

  • provides an internationally recognised means of evaluating the competence of organisations to perform specific tests, calibrations, measurements and inspections;
  • allows these facilities to determine whether they are performing their work correctly and to appropriate standards;
  • helps testing and inspection facilities maintain their competence through regular surveillance visits;
  • provides formal recognition of competent testing and inspection services and thus enhances their marketing;
  • assists with meeting the requirements of contractors who specify independently verified facilities;
  • assists manufacturing organisations to ensure the quality of in-house testing of their products;
  • enables customers to identify and select reliable testing, calibration, measurement and inspection services.

Unlike certification to ISO 9000, ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation uses criteria and procedures specifically developed to determine technical competence, thus assuring customers that the test, calibration or inspection data supplied by AWTA Textile Testing are accurate and reliable.

To facilitate the acceptance of test and calibration data between Australia and other countries, NATA is now a signatory to th`e APLAC regional Mutual Recognition Arrangement and the ILAC global Arrangement. It also maintains a bilateral arrangement with the European cooperation on Accreditation (EA).

Under these multilateral arrangements, NATA-endorsed test and calibration reports are accepted by NATA's fellow signatories and promoted as equivalent to reports issued by their own accredited laboratories. Conversely, test reports produced by the co-signing organisation's accredited laboratories are promoted in Australia as equivalent to NATA-endorsed test reports.