Third party certification
certification schemes is to provide confidence to interested parties (eg architect, contractor, building owner, building management, approving authority, insurer, building user/occupier) that the fire resisting product has been constructed (ie product certification) and installed (ie process certification) correctly, such that it will provide the required fire resistance performance to the appropriate test standard (eg BS 476-22: 1987 for fire resisting door assemblies). The value of the certification is that there is independent assurance and therefore increased confidence that the fire resisting product is capable of achieving the stated performance. It would also be reasonable to expect such assurance to reduce the burden on the interested parties (primarily building control bodies, in terms of checking compliance) in relation to verifying the supporting test evidence against the manufactured product as installed on site. Both product and process certification
schemes are mentioned together, as there is little point in having a compliant product incorrectly installed – particularly with a safety system such as a fire resisting product – as fire will always exploit the weak link. For some fire resisting systems such as glazing, the fire resistance of proven products in test conditions can be reduced from 60 minutes to as little as a few minutes as a result of poor installation.
First party certification This is termed first party conformity assessment activity3
conformity assessment activity that is performed by the person or organisation who/which provides the product. In other words, it is the manufacturer of the product declaring that it is compliant with the relevant normative standards and manufacturing processes without any independent verification. This increases the level of trust and reliance on the manufacturer to have constructed the product in accordance with the relevant supporting documentation (eg assessment reports or test evidence) and increases the burden on interested parties (particularly building control bodies) to verify the compliance of the product.
Second party certification Also termed second party conformity assessment activity3
,this is a conformity assessment activity
performed by a person or organisation who/which has a user interest in the product. An example of this could be a supplier of components endorsing or verifying that a manufacturer is constructing a compliant product using their components. Due to the vested interest of the component supplier, there is still an increased reliance on trust that the products have been constructed correctly and a requirement on the interested parties to ensure compliance against the supporting documentation.
Third party certification Alternatively termed third party conformity assessment activity3
, or sometimes self certification, and is a
FOCUS
, this is a conformity assessment
activity performed by a person or body who/ which is independent of the person or organisation that provides the product, and of user interests
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