ASTM D7495-12(2019)

This international standard was developed in accordance with internationally recognized principles on standardization established in the Decision on Principles for the
Development of International Standards, Guides and Recommendations issued by the World Trade Organization Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Committee.
Designation: D7495 −12 (Reapproved 2019)
Standard Specification for
Minimum Requirements for Accreditation Bodies That
Accredit Agencies Testing and Inspecting Road and Paving
Materials
This standard is issued under the fixed designation D7495; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A
superscript epsilon (´) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
1. Scope ANSI/ISO/IEC 17025 General Requirements for the Com-
petence of Testing and Calibration Laboratories
1.1 This document contains minimum requirements for
establishing and implementing an accreditation program for
3. Terminology
agencies testing and inspecting road and paving materials.
3.1 Definitions of Terms Specific to This Standard:
1.2 The criteria in this document are applicable to accredi-
tation programs which accredit agencies testing and inspecting 3.1.1 accreditation body—authoritative body that manages
road and paving materials. an accreditation program.
1.3 This standard does not purport to address all of the
3.1.2 accreditation program for agencies testing and in-
safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the
specting road and paving materials—a program administered
responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appro-
by an independent authority to fairly and equitably recognize
priate safety, health, and environmental practices and deter-
an agency for conformance to defined quality criteria.
mine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.
3.1.3 agency—theorganizationengagedtotestorinspect,or
1.4 This international standard was developed in accor-
both, road and paving materials as required by a specification
dance with internationally recognized principles on standard-
or contract.
ization established in the Decision on Principles for the
Development of International Standards, Guides and Recom-
3.1.4 evaluation authority—an independent entity, apart
mendations issued by the World Trade Organization Technical
from the testing laboratory being evaluated, that has the
Barriers to Trade (TBT) Committee.
capabilitytoprovideanunbiasedevaluationoftheprofessional
and testing activities of testing laboratories.
2. Referenced Documents
3.1.5 testing agency quality system—the organizational
2.1 ASTM Standards:
structure, staff responsibilities, policies, standard operating
D3666 Specification for Minimum Requirements for Agen-
procedures,andprocesseswhich,whenimplemented,assistthe
cies Testing and Inspecting Road and Paving Materials
testing agency in achieving its quality objectives.
2.2 ANSI/ISO/IEC Standards:
ANSI/ISO/IEC 17011 General Requirements forAccredita-
4. Significance and Use
tion Bodies Accrediting Conformity Assessment Bodies
4.1 This document supplements ANSI/ISO/IEC 17011 and
together these two documents provide the minimum require-
This specification is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee D04 on Road
and Paving Materials and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee D04.95 on
ments for an accreditation body which accredits agencies
Quality Control, Inspection and Testing Agencies.
testing and inspecting road and paving materials.
Current edition approved Feb. 1, 2019. Published February 2019. Originally
approved in 2012. Last previous edition approved in 2012 as D7495 – 12. DOI:
4.2 The user is cautioned that accreditation granted by an
10.1520/D7495-12R19.
accreditation body can only serve a useful purpose if the
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procedures followed to obtain the accreditation are practiced
Standards volume information, refer to the standard’s Document Summary page on
on a daily basis by the testing agency. It is not the existence of
the ASTM website.
3 the system but the routine implementation of the procedures
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4th Floor, New York, NY 10036, http://www.ansi.org. and policies of the quality system that is important.
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D7495 − 12 (2019)
5. Accreditation Body annual surveillance or desk audits, the interval for on-site
assessments may be increased to a maximum of 30 months.
5.1 The accreditation body in developing and implementing
its accreditation program shall meet the requirements in
NOTE 1—The accreditation body may use designated evaluation au-
thorities to perform some or all of the on-site assessments required for
ANSI/ISO/IEC 17011 and the requirements of this standard.
accreditation, provided the accreditation body has documented that the
evaluation authority meets all the requirements of this standard.
6. Personnel
7.3 The on-site assessment shall include a demonstration of
6.1 The accreditation body shall document the duties,
each test method or practice for which the testing agency has
responsibilities, and authorities of top management who could
requested accreditation. At the discretion of the assessor, it is
affect the quality of the accreditation process.
permitted for some procedural aspects of the test methods or
6.2 The accreditation body shall ensure that personnel have
practices to be described by laboratory personnel in lieu of
the necessary and proper education, experience, training, and
demonstration. The test methods shall be performed by tech-
technical knowledge.
nicians employed by the laboratory at the specific location
6.3 The accreditation body shall describe the required seeking accreditation.
qualifications, education, and experience for each position
7.4 The assessor shall verify that the equipment that the
within their organization.
laboratory uses to perform the testing that is listed in the
6.4 The accreditation body shall ensure that the assessors proposed scope of accreditation complies with the specifica-
they employ are familiar with the accreditation process and
tions listed within the test standards. This accreditation body
accreditation criteria.
shall verify the compliance of the laboratory’s test equipment
with its own equipment that, where practical, has been cali-
6.5 The assessors shall be trained through a formal assessor
brated by an agency which complies with ISO/IEC 17025
training program that verifies an assessor’s technical qualifi-
(Note 2). The assessor has the option of either physically
cations.Theassessorsshallbetrainedintheuseofthemethods
verifying the test equipment or observing laboratory personnel
and documents used for assessments. Training records shall be
physicallyverifyingthetestequipmentwiththeequipmentthat
maintained by the accred
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