The changing face of measurement audits

Measurement audits are an essential element of providing confidence that measurements are performed to acceptable standards. Whether it is sufficient to depend on the traceability of measuring equipment to national standards to establish a system of accurate measurement or whether a system of national measurements audits is needed to support traceability, requires considerable further discussion. The most suitable body for providing such a service is the National Physical Laboratory (NPL). They, with their partners in the newly formed National Measurement Partnership, should urgently review the need for a national measurement audit service to supplement, not reduce all existing traceability of measurement services