Quality Assurance is a primary consideration when selecting a laboratory.

Leeder Consulting's Quality Management Systems are certified to the internationally recognised AS/NZS ISO 9001 Standards. A copy of our QA manual and other certification and registrations are available for viewing or download by clicking on the table below.

In Australia our laboratory is NATA Accredited. NATA is Australia's only nationally and internationally recognised provider of laboratory accreditation. Established over 50 years ago, NATA is also the world's largest association of accredited laboratories. NATA accredits laboratories against criteria based on the internationally recognised ISO Guide 17025.

Specific technical evaluation, combined with NATA's international recognition by its overseas counterparts, enables laboratories accredited by NATA to be recognised world-wide.

The Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry have inspected and registered Leeder Consulting as an Approved Quarantine Laboratory which enables us to receive and analyse samples from outside Australia.

Leeder Consulting are appointed Approved Analysts under MARPOL 73/78, the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships.

The approval is made by AMSA, (The Australian Maritime Safety Authority) as part of the National Plan to Combat Pollution of the Sea by Oil and Other Noxious and Hazardous Substances and is under the Protection of the Sea (Prevention of Pollution from Ships) Act 1983.

In the State of Victoria, Leeder Consulting Senior Staff are appointed as Approved Analysts "for the chemical analysis of environmental waste, water and soil samples".