Re-certification

Sampled scan data would be a benefit when it comes to certification of new inspectors or re-certification of existing staff. A large database of scans could be compiled and used randomly at test centres, which would help to avoid the samples becoming too familiar. Examinations could also be more easily tailored to the probes, types of materials and types of defects the inspector is likely to see. 

Sampled scan data can be used to improve certification, re-certification by providing a richer and more tailored environment and provides for inspection and inspector auditing... 

If such nonconformities count, could they be deemed major nonconformities and thus result in failure to achieve certification or re-certification ... 

Yes. If a brand-name company lists an additional patent in the Orange Book after the generic applicant has filed its AND A, more than one 30-month stay may be generated. The generic applicant is required to re-certify to this later-listed patent, and if, upon notice of the generic s re-certification, the brand-name company sues within 45 days, then FDA approval of the generic s previously filed ANDAis stayed for an additional 30-months from the notice date or until a court decision in the newly instituted patent litigation. 

EPA (1996b). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 40 CFR Part 194— Criteria for the certification and re-certification of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant s compliance with the 40 CFR Part 191 disposal regulations, Final rule, 61 FR 5224 (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington). 

Besides the preliminary stability study, regular checks should be carried out over the entire lifetime of the material. In some rare situations over the certification projects conducted under the BCR activities, examples of instability of substances in materials were demonstrated. A typical example was shown by the instability of TBT demonstrated in the CRM 462 (coastal sediment) at +40°C over a short-term period and at +4°C over 24 months which justified the withdrawal of the material from the market and its re-certification (Lamberty et at., 1998). 

US Environmental Protection Agency (1996) 40 CFR Part 194 criteria for the Certification and Re-certification of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant s Compliance With the 40 CFR Part 191 Disposal Regulations Final Rule. Federal Register,. (No. 28), Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC, vol. 61, pp. 5224-5245. 

Recent findings have shown that the certified value of TBT in the CRM 462 has decreased by ca. 20% over a long-term period (36 months storage at +4°C). This has justified that the material be withdrawn from the market and that a new homogeneity and stability study be undertaken. A re-certification of DBT and TBT in CRM 462 has been conducted in 1997 by the IRMM. The results show that materials certified for their butyltin contents should imperatively be stored at -20°C in the dark. The new certified values are (54 15) pg kg" as TBT and (68 12) pg kg as DBT [14]. 

Step 18. The MRC reviews blanket certifications annually, during the month of December, and prepares re-certifications as appropriate. 

There are a number of triggers that lead to modifications of an existing hoist system that may involve compliance or re-certification to current legislative requirements, and any of the points listed below will Invariably impact on the safety sub-systems, both electrical and mechanical. 

The primary test methods stated in the regulation are EPA methods 9 and 22. Simply stated, if you use method 9 to judge opacity, the facility must be re-certified every six months, a process that will involve time-consuming paperwork. Under method 22, if you install a control device such as a dust collector and are able to show over an initial monitoring period that it eliminates visible emissions (i.e., achieves zero opacity), you will eliminate the need for constant re-certification. 

The IMA approach also provides the potential to enable mid-life updates or technology insertion in an affordable manner. This is an important issue, because the modification of an already certified system will require re-certification. In particular, research (Holton 2007) has shown that... 

If an employer is required to have employees who are trained responders on site per an applicable standard (e.g., permit-required confined spaces), then they must have current certifications. Typically, these certifications are administered by the entity which provides the training (e.g., American Red Cross, American Heart Association, National Safety Council, etc.). As such, an employer would be expected to follow that entity s re-certification schedule as necessary. 

How often should emergency responders receive re-certification training ... 

The main outcome here is that for specific kind of changes, in which software components can be replaced, the system does not need to be turned back into the development phase. Furthermore, if the re-certification of the system is required, the original certification data can be reused, since they are not impacted by those changes. In response, replacements of software components can be maintained without any development costs. 

Maintaining Security Level during Operations (includes Maintenance, Change Management and Incident Handling), Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning). This is a critical issue in context of safety certification Security outlives rather quick its life time, so frequent updates are necessary - quite opposite to what safety people want, to avoid re-assessment and re-certification ... 

Abstract. The development and verification of safety-critical systems increasingly relies on the use of tools which automate/replace/ supplement complex verification and/or development tasks. The safety of such systems risks to be compromised, if the tools fail. To mitigate this risk, safety standards (e.g. DO-178C/DO330, lEC 61508) define prescriptive tool qualification processes. Compliance with these processes can be required for (re-)certification purposes. To enable reuse and thus reduce time and cost related to certification, cross-domain tool manufacturers need to understand what varies and what remains in common when transiting from one domain to another. To ease reuse, in this paper we focus on verification tools and model a cross-domain tool qualification process line. Finally, we discuss how reusable cross-domain process-based arguments can be obtained. 

Thus, the main effort during re-certification is expected to be limited to the development of G4. 

In this paper, we have presented a novel approach to reduce cost and time during the tool certification process. We have shown that by modeling the family of tool qualification processes via a safety-oriented process line, it is possible to identify reusable process elements and thus speed up the re-certification process when tools are expected to be used in different domains. We have also shown that these reusable process elements are reflected in the process-based arguments and thus not only qualification data (evidence) has the potential to be reused but also process-based sub-arguments. The main attention in this paper was given to the verification tools, however the approach can be extended to other tool categories as well as other kinds of safety-related processes. Due to space reasons, we also focused on process-related tasks and work products. As extensively discussed in [24], reuse also embraces all the other crucial process elements (namely, roles, work products, and guidance). 

Requirements for certification and re-certification should be defined. Certification has been regulated with respect to the properties of a medical device before it is allowed onto the market for clinical use, but there are no requirements for feedback based on post-marketing surveillance and retrieval analysis. Only product recall and withdrawal from the market in the case of a serious adverse advent have been regulated. 

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