key services

BASEC offers a wide range of services in product approvals and certification, systems assessment and certification, auditing for process capability in cable making and independent testing and reporting in the event of disputes.

Product approvals - manufacturers submit each cable type submitted for BASEC approval for a full range of type test to check the products comply with national and international standards.  Only after BASEC has also verified that a cable manufacturer has the facilities, processes and the capability to make good cable is a license awarded, permitting the manufacturer to display the BASEC mark on their products. Each approved cable is then regularly retested by BASEC to ensure ongoing conformity.

Systems assessment and certification - here BASEC operates individual or integrated management system assessment schemes, leading to the company issuing management systems certification. The BASEC schemes are designed to assess an organisation's general ability to produce goods and services consistently to specification and customer requirements, in a safe manner and with due regard to environmental needs.

They include:- 

Quality management systems to ISO 9001

Environmental management systems to ISO 14001

Health & Safety management systems to OHSAS 18001

Audits where more than one of these is employed may be conducted individually or on an integrated basis.

Certificate of Assessed Design - BASEC offers a Certificate of Assessed Design for new concepts where no national or international standard yet exists. In this instance a manufacturer's or users/other specification may be used as the baseline specification, which BASEC may review to ensure that current industry requirements, e.g. particular test methods, are incorporated as appropriate.

Auditing for process capability in cable making - a certification process that verifies the capability of a defined set of manufacturing processes. Capability approval also includes witness testing and covers products made within the defined process boundaries, without the need for external testing for each type of product.

Independent testing and reporting in the event of disputes - this enables an interested party to have a cable independently tested. This service allows reports to be issued regarding a cable and its conformity to a specification but no right to use a BASEC mark is awarded.