European Certification Body – ECB ensures Burglary Protection for Safes
- Reliable safe testing in periodically reviewed laboratories
- Test methodology for secure storage units complies with
European standard EN 1143-1
- ECB puts burglar resistance of safes to the test
(firmenpresse) - Frankfurt, 9 September 2019
The European Certification Body GmbH e of the safes.
Multi-stage recognition procedure for testing laboratories
"We are aware of our responsibility and take comprehensive precautions to ensure that buy-ers of safes and insurers can rely on the certification marks of our certification body," ex-plains ECB Managing Director Dr. Markus Heering. This includes a multi-stage recognition procedure, which every testing laboratory must go through in order to be allowed to test for ECB at all. The basic requirement is accreditation according to the international standard ISO/IEC 17025. The ECB cooperation partners are already accredited according to the cur-rent version 2017. After accreditation according to the new version, a "System Audit" follows, in which the ECB certification engineers put the personnel, equipment and internal processes of the laboratories to the test.
Only when this hurdle has been cleared may the testing laboratories measure themselves against the strict requirements of the ECB in two technical audits. If, in addition to testing safes with "basic and medium security", they then wish to be approved for testing safes with higher security levels, they must undergo a third technical audit. This is not the end of the recognition process either, as the certification body regularly carries out comparative tests between the testing laboratories in order to ensure high quality in the long term.
Trust is good
Recently in February 2019 ECB carried out a comparative test with tools ranging from crow-bars and angle grinders to oxyacetylene torches on high security safes. The wide selection of tools is due to the different types of safes on the market. While some wall materials withstand attacks by angle grinders better, but are more vulnerable to attacks by oxyacetylene torches, the opposite is true for others. Also the door constructions of the products in the market differ partly clearly. "Even before the actual test, the test laboratories develop a suitable attack strategy for the respective safe, just as burglars do. EN 1143-1 deliberately leaves room for such individualized attack strategies in order to do justice to the variety of products on the market," emphasizes Heering. In order to ensure the comparability of the test laboratories, the so-called SECOTA (Security, Equivalent, Certification, Organization, Testing and Auditing) comparison test with standardized test samples was developed in cooperation with the securi-ty association ESSA e.V.. Each of the test bodies recognized by ECB goes through this test. "We proceed so conscientiously because we want to offer end customers and insurers an orientation that is based on comprehensible tests and information in a market that offers an ever wider range of products," says Heering.
Audits at safe manufacturers as additional protection
To secure the test results, ECB carries out strict audits once or twice a year at the manufac-turers of the secure storage units. ECB inspectors visit production facilities in Europe, Asia, North and South America and check whether the safes manufactured there are identical in construction to those tested in the testing laboratories. To ensure that no routines occur during the audits carried out every six to twelve months, ECB ensures that an auditor does not check the same manufacturer several times in succession.
"We agree with the manufacturers of the secure storage units that the trust of customers and insurers can only be won with strict and transparent tests," explains Heering. Therefore, ECB will make absolutely no compromises within the range of the examinations and audits.
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The European Certification Body (ECB) is an independent certification association in compliance with ISO/IEC 17065. The ECB•S certification warrants highest security standards in accordance with the European norms. Currently there are 1,250 valid ECB•S certificates at the global security market for burglary and fire protection products, burglary-resistant doors and high-security locks as well as burglar resistant products for windows and doors.
Datum: 09.09.2019 - 09:10 Uhr
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