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Quality & Standards

The PSBT members have adopted the PSBT Industry Best Practice Code and provide their services in accordance with ISO 17100 translation requirements standard, and many have additionally implemented the ISO 9001:2015 quality standard.

HISTORY

The EN 15038:2006 Standard

The PSBT played a key role in approving and preparing the Polish version of the specialist European translation standard EN 15038:2006. MAart Agency, a PSBT member company, translated and revised the EN 15038 standard into Polish in 2006 and thanks to the efforts of the PSBT it was published as a Polish standard by the Polish Committee for Standardization (PKN) on 09.10.2006. In co-operation with the PKN the PSBT also organized a conference devoted to the then newly published EN 15038:2006 standard for translation services.

Representatives of the PSBT created the first independent certification system for the EN 15038 standard in the world, accredited the first certification company (Bureau Veritas Certification), trained the auditors, and Polish companies were the first to obtain independent third-party EN 15038 certification as of the beginning of 2007.

 

TODAY

The PSBT experts, and Monika Popiolek in particular, were instrumental in developing the ISO 17100 standard within ISO. ISO 17100 was published on 01.05.2015 and it replaced EN 15038 as ISO EN 17100. PSBT made sure the standard was translated into Polish and made published immediately as PN-EN ISO 17100 by PKN. The first translation company in the world to receive independent ISO 17100 certification (on 27.04.2015) was MAart Agency Ltd - a PSBT member. 

The PSBT has developed a certification scheme for ISO 17100 certification and serves as an industry accreditation body for that and several other standards. The PSBT certification scheme is being used in many countries worldwide by Bureau Vertitas Certification (including China). 

As a result, PSBT members have access to all relevant information, know-how and special offers for certification. 

Other Industry Standards

The PSBT has always been very active in the development and promotion of industry standards:

  • Representatives of the PSBT serve on OASIS technical committees (notably XLIFF)
  • Representatives of the PSBT serve on ISO TC 37 technical committees (notably all ISO industry standards)
  • Representatives of the PSBT serve on PKN Technical Committee 256
  • Representatives of the PSBT continue to represent the Polish industry on the relevant CEN and ISO technical committees and helped develop several important standards (ISO, EN, TBX, Unicode).