Competence | Efficiency | Integrity
Australia’s independent laboratory accreditation body.
Australian Laboratory Accreditation Body (ALAB)’s team is made up of conformity assessment professionals who share a commitment to excellence in testing and calibration, and the integrity of their work – for the benefit of Industry and the whole community.
ALAB Limited is a not-for-profit charity operating for the good of the Australian community.
ALAB provides accreditation against the international best practice Standard for laboratories – ISO/IEC 17025:2017.
We independently assess laboratories’ documented systems and then conduct on-site visits to review and evaluate the implementation of laboratory processes, including testing and calibration.
Why Accreditation?
Laboratory accreditation is the independent evaluation of testing and calibration laboratories (“conformity assessment bodies”) against International Standards for governance and competence. Accreditation provides laboratories with the confidence to demonstrate to their stakeholders that their test and calibration reports are accurate and reliable.
ALAB arose in 2016 from the need for freedom of choice when it comes to laboratory accreditation. ALAB started as private company but has evolved to become the registered charity it is today.
Australian governments, industry, retailers and the wider community hold accreditation bodies to the highest standards, and so ALAB operates strictly to publicly-available governance rules that are registered by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and a constitution that dictates how we demonstrate to the Australian Community that our accreditation certificate is a trust-worthy attestation of a laboratory’s competence and reliability.
