Training

The Emirates International Accreditation Centre (EIAC) has conducted various trainings. ISO 15189 training was conducted for medical laboratories and assessors and experts. Dr. Venkatesh Thuppil was the resource person. The training was conducted on 26-29 February 2024. Trainings of transition to new version of ISO 15189, Biobank and Halal standards were also conducted. Dr. Venkatesh […]

ISO/IEC 17024 training was conducted for persons certification bodies. The training also covered the conformity assessment scheme requirements. The training was attended by delegates from various public and private entities including Dubai Police. Engr. Muhammad Shahid Rasool was the resource person for the training. The training was conducted on 21-22 February 2024.

In 2022, the UAE has seen growth in the travel and tourism sector that has contributed to 9% of the total GDP, while Dubai alone has seen a growth of 53.8% compared to 2021. According to “Euromonitor’s Top 10 City Destinations Index 2022”, Dubai was ranked second most visited city in the world. Addressing a […]

EIAC’s public and assessors’ trainings during first half of the year 2023. 1. ISO 15189: 2022 Training for EIAC’s Approved Assessors Dates: 28 Feb 2023, 1st and 2nd March 2023. Trainers: Ms. Sheila Woodcock and Mr. David Ricketts 2. ISO ISO 15189: 2022 Training for Medical Laboratories staff & other interested parties Dates: 20 March […]

The Emirates International Accreditation Centre (EIAC) has conducted a three day training on ISO 15189 accreditation standard for medical testing laboratories. Dr. Venkatesh Thuppil was the main resource persons. Mr. Prabhakar Golkonda and Engr. Abdul Aziz Khamis Al-Merrri were the coordinators for the training course. Doctors, medical laboratory technologists, hospital officials, auditors and assessors attended […]

The Emirates International Accreditation Centre (EIAC) is conducting special 4 days training for assessors for healthcare facilities including hospitals, day surgery centers, clinics, fertility centers, home health services, medical tourism and telehealth services on 5 November to 8 November 2022. The training is focused on EIAC Accreditation Standard for Healthcare Providers (EIAC-RQ-HCO-003). The EIAC standard […]

Assessment Assessment is a process undertaken by an accreditation body such as EIAC to determine the competence of a conformity assessment body (such as certification body, laboratory, inspection body), based on standard(s) and/or other normative documents and for a defined scope of accreditation. Document Review Once your application for accreditation is accepted by the EIAC, […]

Halal certification has been in the news from time to time for reasons more than one. While food has been the primary area of discussion world-over for many years, beauty products with Halal certification is an idea that has been in news during the recent times. Not just that, Halal envelopes various other segments like […]

The International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) is an organisation that develops international standards for products, systems, services & business processes. However, this organisation neither undertakes certification of businesses nor issues certificates to them. There are several independent (third party) certification bodies/registrars all around the world that can grant ISO certification to your company for various […]