Third Party Independent Inspection

Inspection 4 Industry LLC Provides Third Party Independent Inspection Services. Read this article about independability of third party inspection agencies.The independence is one of the important conditions for inspection agency to be a Third Party Inspection Company.

You may need to review the third party independent inspection article in conjunction with the following articles:

third party independent inspection

Third Party Inspection

Third Party Inspection Services

Third Party Quality Inspection

Third Party Inspection Agency

ISO 17020 and Third Party Independent Inspection

The title of ISO 17020 is the general criteria for the operation of various types of bodies performing inspection.

Based the requirement of this standard, in clause 4.2:

“The inspection body shall be independent to the extent that is required with regard to the conditions under which it performs its services.”

The independence criteria for Third Party Inspection Companies detailed in Annex A of ISO 17020 is as below:

  • The inspection body shall be independent of the parties involved.
  • The inspection body and its staff responsible for carrying out the inspection shall not be the designer, manufacturer, supplier, installer, purchaser, owner, user or maintainer of the items that they inspect, nor the authorized representative of any of these parties.
  • The inspection body and its staff shall not engage in any activities that may conflict with their independence of judgment and integrity in relation to their inspection activities. In particular, they shall not become directly involved in the design, manufacture, supply, installation, use or maintenance of the items inspected, or similar competitive items.
  • All interested parties shall have access to the services of the inspection body. There shall not be undue financial or other conditions.

The procedures under which the body operates shall be administered in a nondiscriminatory manner.

So based on the above requirements, when either the buyer or seller make a contract with a third party inspection company, the judgment must be done independently.

In the case of a dispute between a buyer and seller, both parties should not expect the third party inspection judge to work in their interest.

Some buyers and sellers make the argument that they are the client, and a Third Party Inspection Company is the contractor, so the contractor must fully obey them.

But based on the third party independent inspection concept, this judgment is not correct and will damage the independence and integrity of the Third Party Inspection Company. If this happens, then nobody can trust to the third party inspection company's inspection and judgment.

A Third Party Inspection agency in the industrial field provides following services to the customers:

Third Party Inspection for Fix Equipment:

Third Party Inspection for Water Tube Boiler, Third Party Inspection for Fire Tube Boiler, Third Party Inspection for Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger, Third Party Ispection for Fin Tube Heat Exchanger, Third Party Inspection for Pressure Vessel, Third Party Inspection for Storage Tank, Third Party Inspection for Line Pipe, Third Party Inspection for Steel Structure, Third Party Inspection for Valve

Third Party Inspection for Rotary Equipment:

Third Party Inspection for Reciprocating Compressor, Third Party Inspection for Centrifugal Pump, Third Party Inspection for Gas Turbine, Third Party Inspection for Steam Turbine, Third Party Inspection for Fan and Blower, Third Party Inspection for Centrifugal Compressor, Screw Compressor Testing, Centrifugal Pump Performance Test, Centrifugal Compressor Testing, Reciprocating Compressor Testing, Fan Mechanical Running test, Fan Performance Test

Third Party Inspection for Electrical Equipment:

Third Party Inspection for Generator, Third Party Inspection for Power Cable, Third Party Inspection for Induction Motor, Third Party Inspection for Switchgear, Third Party Inspection for Electrical Insulator, Third Party Inspection for Gas Circuit Breaker, Third Party Inspection for Control Panel, Third Party Inspection for Battery Charger, Third Party Inspection for UPS Storage Battery, Third Party Inspection for Power Transformer

Other Related Articles

Industrial Inspection, Pre-Shipment Inspection, Goods Inspection, Shop Inspection, Factory Acceptance Test, Inspection and Test Plan, Vendor Inspection Services, Goods Inspection Services, Commodity Inspection Services, Preshipment Inspection Services, 3rd Party Shop Inspection, Third Party Inspection for Material Stamp, Quality Control Plan, Quality Control Manuals for Contractors, Quality Control Manual, Contractor Quality Control Plan, Third Party Inspection Expediting, Industrial Quality Control, Quality Control Forms


Return from Third Party Independent Inspection to Third Party Inspection

Return from Third Party Independent Inspection to Inspection for Industry Home


Did you find this article useful? Click on below Like and G+1 buttons!

New! Comments

Have your say about what you just read! Leave me a comment in the box below.

Follow on

Search this Site! More than 600 Articles!

Aramco API Classroom