South Africa's national Bureau of Standards (South substitutes Bureau of Standards, SABS) is according to the national Standards act of 1945, South Africa department of institutions. SABS is a neutral third party certification bodies in South Africa, is responsible for system certification and product certification in South Africa. In addition to the standards of responsibility, SABS also on behalf of the state mandatory standards in management, to conform to the specifications of products, awarded marks, also is responsible for the ISO9001, ISO9002 certificate of enterprise, and on behalf of the state and some of the major buyer is responsible for inspection and testing before shipment and issue the certificate. SABS certification is widely used in chemical, biological products, fiber products and clothing, mechanical products, safety equipment, electrical products, civil and construction and automotive products, etc. In recent years, the SABS certification has become an important weight of the South African government control the import of products.
The scope of
SABS certification divided into two major categories of product certification and system certification, and SABS product authentication mainly includes the following eight categories: chemical, biological products, fiber products and clothing, mechanical products, safety equipment, electrical products, civil and construction and automotive products. Among them, involved in building materials and products are: stoneware, concrete products, roofing material, cement, lime, cement mixture and natural stone used in construction, safety glass, steel structure, lumber and wood, brick, tile, paint, coating, sealant, etc.
conditions
1. The product conforms to a SABS/SANS national standards;
2. Products through corresponding standard test;
3. The quality system meet the requirements of ISO 9000 or other specified requirements;
4. Only the product and quality system meet the requirements can apply for to use SABS;
5. Regular product test should, under the guidance and submit and release test results;
6. Quality system assessment at least 2 times a year, and requires all content evaluation.
process
1. Manufacturers to fill in the complete application form;
2. If the factory has more than one place, to complete a separate application form. Each product within the scope of certification requirements embodied in the application form. In addition, the factory also need to fill in the application form, head of credit, the manager should ensure that the first examination and other certification fees;
3. The South African bureau of standards, after receipt of the application form will be sent a quotation for the audit;
4. On the premise of quotation approved, the South African bureau of standards for factory will review;
More than 5. If the audit is passed, the South African bureau of standards will prepare annual supervision contract;
6 each year there will be two auditors to random inspection, the supervision of the annual review and test fee will be stated in the contract;
7. Two auditors will random samples to laboratory;
8. After test the samples, the South African bureau of standards will be drawn from the buyer the goods of South Africa, if the goods of batch is less than 4 times a year, then not enough sample requests sent from the factory, the cost will be borne by the factory.
9. If the test result is unqualified, then the cost of the sample and the test fee will be borne by the factory;
10. The validity of the certificate will be three years, unless there are other reasons to cancel the certificate.
certificate
1. The certification of South Africa in two situations: the first application is to apply for LOA and COC this is mandatory for the import of South Africa, and this certification program is no labeling SABS trademark on the product label, the application does not need to factory inspection; The second application is based on the first application can apply for SABS Mark again on the basis of the use of the use of the logo is needed after a series of factory inspection procedures, cost a lot of, every year must also pay a certain amount of annual fee and factory inspection fee as a symbol of the rights.
2. The COC is EMI test, LOA is letter of approval authority agents, direct application to and South Africa
The matters
1, the first enterprise must specify an Agent (Agent), the Agent shall claim for all the data information, and after-sales service is responsible for all matters. South African road traffic laws (Act93:1996) require importers to register at the local department of transportation;
2, South Africa is inch, right belongs to the member states, at the same time only after successfully registered can continue to test and submit documents to SABS, etc;
3, all tests should be strictly according to related standards in South Africa to complete the project and will meet the NRCS report and other technical documents submitted;
4, the entire certification process includes two parts: test report review and consistency check sample; (note: check the samples can be arranged according to the need of enterprise in China or South Africa)
5, once all the information and samples passed audit and assessment, NRCS NRCS will issue the certificate. In general the whole audit process is not more than 15 working days.
6, the validity of the certificate: as long as there have been no changes to the applicable standards and regulations, at the same time, the sample without any modification, certificate is effective;
7, NRCS consistency will be responsible for production control, such as the sample model is found not to conform, it has the right to withdraw the certificate.
8, in order to ensure production consistency, NRCS may after a period of time after the certificate application for factory audit.