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However, it has been correctly stated as a Registration. If it is an Accreditation, that would be administered by CALA (formerly known as CAEAL) as that is the Canadian AB for environmental. Accreditation would also be to different standards than 9K and 14K. And CALA does require on-site assessment.
However, the Ministry of the Environment states that the CGSB was selected as their "registrar" - which would infer "registration", similiar to ISO registration - BUT the CGSB refers to themselves as providing "accreditation services" for the "Accreditation Program".
Confusion is going to continue for sometime, I'm thinking!!
Thanks for everyone's responses, nice to hear that I'm not alone in finding some of their "practices" a little different! (Also, I'm discovering that the vast majority of municipalities have put people into the QMS Representative role that have no quality background, so to them, this is "normal" - including the confusion!! And they are shaking in their boots about the 'big bad auditors' that are going to come - I'm changing their perceptions here at my municipality!!)
Darlene
