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Sun safety is a vital part of public health in Australia, a nation where high levels of ultraviolet (UV) radiation are a daily reality. Behind the scenes, NATA plays a crucial role in ensuring that the products, tools, and data…

Are your staff capable or are they just trained? In this session from Accreditation Matters 2025, NEAS’s Alasdair Stark aims to answer that age-old question by looking at how effectively assessing staff competence, and then improving it with training, can lead to better performance, innovation, and quality. 

Most people rarely think about testing unless something goes wrong. Yet behind the products we use, the services we rely on and the environments we move through sits a vast network of accredited testing that quietly…

With a practical approach, Tammy Lakeland of Eurofins guides you through the NATA assessment process. Her goal? To provide reassurance and actionable techniques to help other Members approach audits more calmly, efficiently and effectively. Presentation overview…

Accreditation Cooperation Incorporated, as well as its own Multilateral Recognition Arrangement (MRA), became fully operational on 1 January 2026, marking the transition to a single global accreditation body strengthening worldwide trust in global quality infrastructure. NATA…

So, What is Accreditation? Accreditation is clearly distinct from certification. Accreditation represents a formal and authoritative recognition that an organisation is technically competent to perform specific activities most commonly in the areas of testing, calibration, inspection,…

International Volunteer Day, held on 5 December 2025, helps to raise awareness of the important role of volunteers worldwide.  As a volunteer-based organization, NATA can deliver the critical service of accreditation thanks to the skills and…

Victoria Police Forensics Services Department has recently achieved accreditation to ISO 21043-2:2018, becoming only the second facility in Australia to be successfully assessed against this International Standard.  Already accredited to AS 5388, the Australian Standard that…