Examination center would like to apply for accreditation as Persons Certification Body with a wide range of scope (for a very colorful list of different professions).
Shall we cover the full scale (each items) of scope with witness assessments during the initial accreditation?
September 2019
Witnessing as an assessment technique is always based on sampling regarding the applied scope. There are other ways of confirming competence that can also be used.
In certification of persons, it seems to be more adequate to set up the sampling at the level of certification scheme more than at the level of categories of persons. If all those categories are within the same rules for certification and examination – the same scheme – the sampling may be done at the categories of persons level.