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Minutes of the Certification Management Committee - 4 December 2007

Present for the meeting were Matthias Fischer, Tom Gloria, Richard Heinisch, Sebastian Humbert, Gary Jakubcin, Michael Richardson, Rita Schenck and Liila Woods.

The agenda of the meeting was the draft management system for certification. Many decisions were taken:

The management committee will be active until the system goes into operation and for one year afterwards. After that point, the committee functions will be combined with the criteria committee, which then should be re-named the certification committee.

Section 2
Definitions to be included (besides those already listed) are all acronyms and “non-governmental organization”

Section 3.2
Representation on the certification committee should include producers, consumers and interested parties, with no group representing more than 50% of membership. No special requirements will be called out, but participation terms should be staggered 3-year terms.

Section 3.4
It was agreed that the proposed approach adequately insured IERE impartiality.

Section 3.5
We will have to have an ethics committee to address complaints against certified LCA professionals. These complaints are expected to be infrequent, and so an ad hoc committee of at least three people will be appointed as needed.

Richard agreed to write a draft of a complaint procedure

Section 5.1 Rita will investigate prometric for standards for test facilities to be placed in this section.

Section 5.2 There will be a website with all the pertinent test information. We will add to the list development of brochures/flyers advertising the testing event to be distributed at relevant tradeshows and conferences. Additional information on the testing should include how long the event will take, what the test is for (low or high level certification), what kind of test and its construction (e.g. written, oral, what sections covered, etc) and any prerequisites. (note these latter will be provided by the criteria committee).

Section 5.3 Rita will write a document control procedure, and will consult counsel on length of retention. No additional documents were added to the list, and the storage approach was deemed to be adequate.

Sections 5.4 & 5.5, and 5.6 no changes/additions

Section 6.1 Re-certification was added.

Section 6.3 Use of certificate and logo—needs to be added. Tom to write a procedure.

All new and corrected documents will be posted on the website before year end. Documents should be sent to Rita for posting. In summary:

• Rita will correct the draft management plan, and write a documentation retention procedure.
• Richard will write a complaints procedure
• Tom will write a logo/certification procedure

Our next meeting will be on January 8th, 8 am Pacific, 11:00 Eastern, same call in information.