Our story began in the UK in 1988. National Quality Assurance, known as NQA, was formed by NICEIC to ensure that the UK marketplace adopted the best practice of management systems.

Fast forward to 2024, and NQA is now part of Kiwa, a global leader in assurance, testing, inspection, and certification (TIC) services across a wide range of products, materials, processes, and services.

Headquartered in Rijswijk, Netherlands, Kiwa’s experts collaborate with our global network to support customers from early R&D through complex regulatory approvals and into production.

With this partnership, we are able to help our customers deliver products and services that are safe, compliant, and trustworthy – making tomorrow safer than today.

Our services

NQA provides accredited certification, training and support services to help you improve processes, performance and products and services. We have issued over 50,000 certificates to clients in over 90 countries.

We help organisations of all sizes perform better in quality, environment, energy, sustainability and health and safety management. Moreover, we make sure that these improvements continue year in, year out.

Often, we will work in close partnership with consultants who can play a crucial role in helping to implement these management systems.

We specialise in management systems certification for: 

Information security

Quality (including automotive and aerospace sectors)

Energy & environment

Health & safety