Impartiality Committee oversight
An impartiality committee oversees our certification activities and reviews threats on an ongoing basis (§4.3.8, §5.1.1).
ISO/IEC 17024:2026 §4.3.2
Impartiality statement.
CAS understands the importance of impartiality in carrying out its certification activities, manages conflicts of interest, and ensures the objectivity of every decision.
Published commitment
How we safeguard impartiality
The CEO is committed, on behalf of the certification body, to the impartiality of every operation — published without request per ISO/IEC 17024:2026 §4.3.2.
Documented risk register
We maintain an impartiality risk register identifying threats from financial, contractual, personnel and related-body sources, with documented mitigations (§4.3.10).
Training is never a precondition
CAS offers training programmes for some of our schemes. Per §5.2.3 we explicitly do not require completion of our own training as a prerequisite for certification — equivalent training elsewhere is accepted. We never imply that purchasing our training makes certification simpler, easier, or less expensive (§5.2.2).
Trainer / examiner separation
A trainer who taught a candidate cannot serve as examiner, invigilator, or decision-maker for that same candidate. Our system enforces this automatically before any such assignment is made (§5.2.3 e, §9.4.4).
Independent decisions
Certification decisions are taken solely by competent personnel of CAS and are never delegated, outsourced, or made by anyone who participated in the candidate's training or examination (§9.4.2, §9.4.4).
Declared commitments
Personnel sign confidentiality and conflict-of-interest commitments and declare any actual or perceived conflicts before any assignment (§6.1.7, §6.1.8, §6.2.1).
No undue barriers
We do not unfairly impede or inhibit access by applicants and candidates. Membership of any association or group is never a precondition for certification (§4.3.6).