Greeting from Representative Director

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Greeting from Representative Director

Greeting from Representative Director

Mr. Noriaki Kobayashi
Representative Director at JACB
(Japan Quality Assurance Organization)

JACB 2011年度代表幹事 小林憲明

JACB was established in April 2000 as a committee of certification bodies operating in Japan accredited by JAB and JIPDEC under the IAF scheme, which is a major industry group in the field of management system certification in Japan and one of the core members in IAF as associate member.

Our focus is to actively promote the third party certification under the international management system standards and enhance the position of certification bodies in the business community in Japan. We have thereby four main tasks.

  1. Communicate the knowledge and information as to management system standards spreading around Japan.
  2. Investigate certification system issues and put out useful messages at home and abroad.
  3. Negotiate with the related organizations and send our experts to some commissions as for the standards and certification systems.
  4. Public relations activities including our web site.

I took up the position as Representative Director in April 2011. Just prior to the appointment, the big earthquake and Tsunami has hit the east side of Japan, which has had a serious impact to the Japanese economy walking slow road to recovery after the 20 years of deflation. Although we have some troublesome events derived from the natural calamity, we can consider this event as a tipping point to change the Japanese economy. The disequilibrium between the demand and supply will be resolved and we have fortunately no tsunami of credit alongside of EU and USA. It is our challenges to restore and streamline the economy.

I find certification bodies and management system standards to be in a good position to help the economy further jumpstart ourselves. We try our efforts at first to earn the confidence in the Japanese business society and JACB will set up our collaboration within all the certification bodies to move to strengthen our ties with the business community.

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