UKAS Accreditation granted

Bureau Technical Inspection Services team to integrate the requirements of ISO/IEC17020:2012 into its existing quality management systems. While it is possible for inspection bodies to operate without this standard, conforming to it can improve the effectiveness of their management system and assure customers of the high level of service they can expect.

As a condition of accreditation, Bureau Technical Inspection Services undergoes an annual assessment by UKAS, which includes on-site witness assessments of inspection activities conducted by competent engineers.

David Blanchard, Managing Director at Bureau Technical Inspection Services said: “This is a huge achievement for our team. Quality and assurance have always been at the heart of our delivery and since launching our Inspection Division in 2022, we have worked hard to achieve this highest accolade from UKAS.”

The organisation will undergo a comprehensive reassessment every four years, with reports and results peer-evaluated and reviewed by an independent UKAS decision-maker before accreditation is renewed.

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Cheltenham based Spirax Sarco is a global leader in the design and manufacture of steam technologies, offering a comprehensive range of steam solutions to a variety of industries and processes.

The BS EN ISO 9001:2008 registered company’s impressive integrated fabrication facility is able to deliver pre-assembled packages of products, from simple valve train units through to complex steam systems.

To enable the effective operation of Spirax Sarco’s quality system the company employs a multitude of instruments and gauges that need to be calibrated monitored and traced to their locations.

Amanda Shakespeare of Spirax Sarco, Cheltenham explained. “Given both the health and safety and commercial implications of the failure in the field of our products, Spirax Sarco administers a strict quality regime. Our exacting quality standards are a major reason for the excellent reputation Spirax Sarco now enjoys throughout the world.

“To enable a multitude of different checks and inspection routines to be carried-out, we currently have more than 12,000 instruments in active service, all of which need to be calibrated, the vast majority of this work takes place on-site. In addition to numerous analogue and digital dimensional gauges, such as micrometers, calipers and bore gauges, we also use countless specialised instruments across a broad range of diverse