Plans are afoot to develop a certification scheme and competency standards for RE installers/designers.
A certification standard is being written for the trace machines.
In the United States, the authority responsible for developing the highest standard of certification, the American Board of Internal Medicine, has not been interested in developing a certification process for a relatively small aspect of critical care medicine.
The Australian Society of Ultrasound in Medicine (ASUM) has developed a certification process for advanced CCE.
Four years ago, ASEBIR took part in an initiative by AENOR, the Spanish Association for Standardization and Certification, to develop a national standard in this field (UNE 17900 2013 System of quality management for assisted reproduction laboratories), extending the former requirements, based on ISO 9001, to include performance indicators.
Edwards says the company is still working with various government agencies to develop pilot certification standards, which will be developed while the CL 160 prototype is constructed.
He suggests that perhaps a national committee could be appointed to develop certification standards for all service animals as well as a formal process for preventing and punishing service-animal fraud.
The Open Identity Exchange, a group of companies including AT&T, Google, Paypal, Symantec and Verizon, is helping to develop certification standards for online identity authentication; it believes that industry can address privacy issues through self-regulation.
The department has worked closely with the national laboratory to help develop the new certification standards.
The efforts of certifiers to develop certification standards for wild harvested plant material need to be supported as well as the approaches of industry to set up self-binding product quality standards.
Since much was new with the airplane, the F.A.A. and Boeing developed new certification standards.
