As part of the implementation of measures to protect public health and prevent harm to life and health of citizens in the context of the spread of COVID-19, the Federal Service for Accreditation is switching to on-site assessment of applicants and accredited CABs to meet accreditation criteria through remote interaction.
On May 19, the first stage of the on-site assessment in the remote format was completed. As a pilot project, a statement was selected to expand the accredited CAB carrying out activities in the field of ensuring the uniformity of measurements.
At the first stage, organized by means of video conferencing on the basis of Russian software with the technical support of the National Institute for Accreditation of RusAccreditation, the expert group implemented on-site assessment activities in a remote format.
In the course of the work, the format for the transfer of documents was determined, confirming compliance with the criteria for accreditation of workers, facilities, standards of units, measuring instruments and test equipment, the identification of the accredited CAB's specialists was carried out, the format for further work in the video conference mode was worked out, materials were requested to assess the practical skills of accredited CAB’s specialists directly performing work on testing measuring instruments in order to approve the type of measuring instruments.
Summing up the videoconference, Deputy Head of RusAccreditation Dmitry Gogolev said that in the difficult epidemiological situation, the Federal Service for Accreditation bears responsibility and implements new forms of conducting on-site assessments.