BS EN 15038 Explained

What is BS EN 15038?

BS EN 15038 is the British version of the European Specification Standard for Translation Services. The standard applies to the service that delivers the translation.

Application of the standard by a service provider gives clients the assurance that the translation delivered meets all of the client’s specified requirements and in every case is fit for purpose. The grade of fitness for purpose set by his standard is set at what the European experts in the field considered to be what a client would generally want and expect. This is a reasonable thing to do but of course it means that there will be situations arising in the real world of client need where that general expectation does not apply or indeed cannot apply.

A claim of conformity to the standard can only be made upon an application of all of the requirements in the standard.

At London Translations

• We know that clients opting for our Business Critical Service would expect us to meet and indeed exceed this standard. For that reason we set out to assure ourselves that our Business Critical Service does conform to BS EN 15038 and this part of the web site demonstrates our achievement.

• In Feb 2007, London Translations became the first translation Company in the UK to be able to demonstrate conformity to the BS EN 15038 Translation Services and have that conformance independently audited.