Verified against primary sources as of 17 August 2026. Laws and figures change — confirm current requirements before relying on this page.
Ireland: 3 verified country-layer records — legal permit (2), conditional requirement (1). 1 accreditation body is listed for this jurisdiction. Bloc-level rules that also apply here are kept on their own page: European Union. Each record below carries its legal instrument, who it binds, and the date it was last verified against its primary source.
- Records
- 3
- Accreditation bodies
- 1
- Bloc
- European Union
National accreditation
Mandatory and regulatory records
Verified from primary sources, grouped by how binding each one is. None of these is a certificate; each carries the instrument it comes from and the date it was last checked.
Conditional requirement
How this jurisdiction is structured
INAB is a Committee of the Health and Safety Authority
INAB was founded in 1985 and operates today as a Committee of the Health and Safety Authority (HSA); INAB staff are HSA employees. The Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Act 2014 (No. 13 of 2014) dissolved Forfás — INAB's former parent — and moved INAB to HSA, itself an agency of the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment. Ireland's Department notified the European Commission in 2010 that INAB is "the sole accreditation body for Ireland as appointed under Regulation (EC) 765/2008" — the specific national legal instrument formally appointing INAB, if any exists beyond that notification, has not been separately confirmed.
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INAB's international recognition — EA MLA, confirmed scope only
INAB states: "Currently, INAB is a signatory to the EA MLA for accreditation of testing (including medical testing) & calibration laboratories, inspection bodies, management systems certification bodies, product certification bodies, and reference material producers." INAB is confirmed as Ireland's entry in the Global ACI Full Members registry.
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Find an INAB-accredited body
INAB maintains a directory of the organisations it has accredited, by category: testing laboratories, calibration laboratories, inspection bodies, and certification bodies (product, personnel and management-system).
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NSAI is not Ireland's accreditation body
The National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI), established under the National Standards Authority of Ireland Act 1996 (No. 28 of 1996), publishes standards, provides certification services and is Ireland's competent authority for the EU Ecolabel — it does not accredit. NSAI itself is subject to accreditation like any other certification body; it must not be confused with, or substituted for, INAB.
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Safety statement — the general workplace-safety duty
The Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 (No. 10 of 2005), s.19, requires an employer and anyone controlling a workplace to identify hazards and carry out a written risk assessment. s.20: "Every employer shall prepare, or cause to be prepared, a written statement (to be known and referred to in this Act as a 'safety statement')" based on that risk assessment. A micro-employer exception, s.20(8): "It shall be sufficient compliance with this section by an employer employing 3 or less employees to observe the terms of a code of practice, if any, relating to safety statements which applies to the class of employment covering the type of work activity carried on by the employer." The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) enforces the Act.
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Bloc-level rules
This country also follows bloc-wide rules, published once and referenced here: