United Kingdom Accreditation Service

How would they, if someone was wondering if I had to find out if something was accredited, how did I do that?

There's normally, on the websites of the areas that, of the labs that are kind of offering sperm DNA fragmentation, you should see that there is something called UCAS accreditation and ISO accreditation as well.

But typically people are accessing sperm DNA fragmentation tests through their clinics as well.

And so clinics will typically be inquiring with the labs as to whether they're accredited or not, but you would ask your clinician or clinic which company or laboratory they're working with and ensure that they're accredited.

So you've got to get the information right in the first place.

So if you get an asbestos survey done, get it done by a UCAS accredited surveying company.

And I don't say that just because Tetra are a UCAS accredited survey.

I think that's the bench.

So unfortunately, there are a lot of companies that aren't UCAS accredited that do surveys, and they don't do very good surveys.

There may very well be UCAS accredited companies that don't do good surveys either.

But the point is, I suppose, it's a level of accreditation, which keeps that bar raised makes you know fundamentally make sure that the information is good and then you can manage the risk well so we get involved a lot of accidental exposure so i think i think things like asbestos and dust exposure is something that's sort of under the radar and perhaps we need to rethink about stuff like that remember i suppose that there are other building related risks in addition to fire and structural safety, where we've all been really focused post-Grenfell and with the Building Safety Act.

But remember, there's other stuff as well.

Mm-hmm

... because of its UKAS accreditation and CPS background.

Sure.

Yeah.

And although we knew what was going to be in it from the drafts and we had a good idea, it's new to all of us, us as consultants, clients who have the standards, but also certification bodies and the accreditation bodies.

So UCAS in the UK, ANAB in America and the others around the world.

They can't really put anything into place until the formal published version is there.

So what we usually get with management systems, and we're pretty sure this will be the same, is that three-year period.

As to the eastern portion of the lands of that republic, those that spread beyond the Dnieper, they were in uninterrupted connection with Russia, or, to use the proper terminology, Muscovy, from an earlier date, namely since 1654, or the year which saw the conclusion of an alliance between Bodan Chmelniki, the hetman of Ukraine, and Alexis Mikhailovits, the Tsar of Muscovy.

This alliance marked one of the most momentous events in the career of that republic set up in 1648, and finally broke up at the end of the 18th century, when the last remnant of it, the Zaporozhian Sich was abolished by the Ukas of the Empress Catherine the Great.

The Republic was born out of a revolt of the Ruthenians against the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, under whose sceptre they lived for some two and a half centuries previously to the event.

It has been a case of reassertion on their part of their national independence which they so fatally lost during the 14th century.