How does a client, lay person, auditor or quality assurance personnel evaluate the competency and fidelity of the certification company’s deliverables?
 

There are many perspectives involved in reviewing certification reports. Procedural standards, statements of compliance to prescribed industry and client standards, acceptance criteria, thoroughness, typographical accuracy and other considerations each provide potential for mistaken deliverables, either unintentional or otherwise.
 

The certification report identifies the tests performed, the spatial and temporal frequency and density of sampling, the field-testing procedures followed by the certification technicians, the specific test acceptance criteria, the measured raw data and whether the test results satisfied the various acceptance criteria. Each and any of these levels have the potential to be misrepresented inside of the certification report.
 

This book is strictly concerned with the reported measured data. That is to say; is it believable? Were the measurements taken in a competent an honest fashion?
 

Is it possible, by looking at and analyzing the data to determine that the reported data faithfully replicates the real time instrument readings? No, of course, that is not possible. However; is it possible by looking at and analyzing the data to determine that the data does not faithfully replicate the real time instrument readings? The answer is: yes, certainly, in many instances.
 

Rather than being a snapshot in time, collectively, their test reports reveal a time lapse photography, a cinematic production. Statistical outliers are as obvious as if they had been reported in red ink. One just has to know how to look.
 

Critical Analysis of Cleanroom and Biological Safety Cabinetry Certification & Balancing Reports is available for instant download in PDF format for $60.