Elevator to Quality

NAC employees met with representatives of the Association of Elevator Companies of the Republic of Kazakhstan in order to promote technical regulation, conformity assessment, accreditation practices of Inspection bodies in the elevator industry, so that elevators in Kazakhstan can become more reliable and safer.

The meeting was initiated by the NAC, which actively promotes the activities of inspection bodies. Their work in Kazakhstan is only gaining momentum, and the National Accreditation Center is stepping up the promotion of this direction in as many sectors of the economy as possible, since they are able to ensure control over the operation of the same elevators throughout the entire period of operation.

Today, the register of accredited subjects of the NAC includes 18 inspection bodies that have been accredited according to ISO/IEC 17020 «Conformity Assessment. Requirements for the work of various types of inspection bodies».

The Association of Elevator Operators unites 27 elevator companies in Kazakhstan that inspect lifting mechanisms, including elevators.

Welcoming the participants of the association, Deputy Director General of the NAC Yerzhan Karasayev noted that there are many difficulties in the elevator industry, there are issues with the quality of servicing elevators by apartment owners cooperatives, property owners associations, with the competence of organizations and persons carrying out work on inspection and repair of elevators, not always able to guarantee their safety.

Accredited inspection bodies can help eliminate problems in the elevator industry. The head of the Methodology and Rationing Department of the NAC, Almat Oryngaliyly, emphasized that accreditation makes it possible to develop fair competition, transparency of work, assessment of personnel competence, serviceability of equipment and, of course, the implementation of work within clear regulations and standards.

Saltanat Mukhamedyarova, an appraiser of the NAC Laboratory Accreditation Department, explained the requirements of the ISO/IEC 17020 standard as a lecturer, spoke about the accreditation procedure and the requirements of legislation in the field of accreditation and technical regulation, spoke about the importance of accreditation of inspection bodies to ensure constant supervision and control over the operation of lifting mechanisms throughout the entire period of their operation.

Chairman of the Association of Elevator Companies of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nurlan Kuttybayev, Chairman of the Board of the self-regulatory organization Arkady Sinitsky, Director of Astanalift LLP Alexander Zernov and others thanked the employees of the NAC for an informative meeting and expressed their willingness to explore the possibility of becoming potential applicants for accreditation according to ISO/IEC 17020 and expressed a wish to conduct training in this area.