Randy Dougherty

Vice president

ANAB

Randy Dougherty is the vice president of the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board (ANAB). ANAB is jointly owned by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the American Society for Quality (ASQ). Dougherty is also the elected chair of the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and the co-convener of ISO/CASCO Working Group 21 which is responsible for the development of ISO/IEC 17021, the international standard for management systems certification bodies. Dougherty has worked 25 years in third-party conformity assessment. Before joining ANAB in 2001, he was president and CEO of NSF-ISR, Ltd., a management systems certification body.

Wed, 01/16/2013 - 13:28
Proving Competence and ImpartialityA look at how conformity assessment bodies are accredited
Wed, 01/16/2013 - 13:28

This article is about accreditation of conformity assessment bodies. Before proceeding further, however, it is important to provide some definitions in order for all of us to have the same understanding of key terms. The first term is “…