To Become Accredited

You may contact the AGRSS™ Secretariat to order information about AGRSS™ Accreditation. Direct Questions and Inquiries about Accreditation to Rick Church

Accreditation is Important
Becoming registered that you meet the ANSI/AGRSS™ Standard will show your customers and suppliers your commitment to safety and quality at the highest level. Becoming accredited also:

• Allow you to promote the fact that your installers follow automotive glass industry best practices for safe automotive glass installations
  
  
• Improve the level of performance and practices of your technicians
  
  
• Demonstrate that you and your technicians meet the pertinent Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard
  
  
• Help you achieve a higher degree of consistency in your installation practices
  
  
• Associate your company with a national advertising campaign that promotes public awareness of the need for safe installation procedures, which will reduce the risk of personal injury and/or death from traffic accidents
  
  
• Market to consumers that you care about their safety
  
  
• Demonstrate to insurers that you follow industry best practices for safe automotive glass installations
  
  
• Enable you to display certificates, wear patches, hang signage, and use the AGRSS™ registration logo in your advertising
  
  
• Be leaders in your community for taking a stand for consumer safety. Learn more about the registration process.
  

You're Invited to Register

Dear Glass Shop Owner:
You should be aware that there now exists an ANSI/AGRSS™ approved standard establishing automotive glass installation best practices. It is this standard that creates the easily identifiable benchmark for proper auto glass installation procedures and it will be this standard, and its contents, that will be promoted throughout our industry. AGRSS™ is committed to the nationwide promotion of this standard. Ultimately, it is our goal that all customers will require their glass shops to be compliant with the practices established by this standard.

Under this premise, we have created a means for your company to demonstrate to the public that you comply with this standard of best practices. Attached is an application entitled “Application for Registration of Compliance with ANSI/AGRSS™ 002-2002 Automotive Glass Replacement Safety Standard”. By your completion and submission of this Application, that includes “Yes” indications on Attachment B, AGRSS™ will register your business as one that complies with the ANSI/AGRSS™ Standard.

Please treat this Application seriously, since you are guaranteeing that your company and its auto glass installation personnel will adhere to the standard. AGRSS™ is fully aware that much work must be done on your part to ensure that this happens and is sustained as an on-going practice; but it will be worth it.

The following list represents a number of features and benefits that you’ll attain through this commitment and association with the AGRSS™ process:

1. First, you will elevate the consistency of safe auto glass installation practices by having everyone follow the same set of rules, thus providing a higher consistency of quality workmanship and lower liability risk.
2. The owners and occupants of automobiles can be better assured of having a safe vehicle to operate. Your public association with this standard will earn higher customer attention and business.
3. Our multifaceted group of customers, such as the insurance industry, rental agencies and corporate customers will now be able to clearly identify those who adhere to our industry’s code of best installation practices. This provides more opportunity to differentiate your business from the competition.
4. And finally, your participation in this AGRSS™ registration program entitles you to use special promotional tools such as signage, technician accreditation patches and having your business included as part of AGRSS™ ’s national and regional campaign to promote acceptance of and adherence to the ANSI/AGRSS™ Standard. This attention to quality should earn better opportunities to do more business.

While AGRSS™ is fully committed to conducting this registration program, what must be understood is that our industry’s customers require the assurance of knowing registered businesses remain compliant. In the near future, we will be submitting an overview to you as to how our program will administer a process of validation to accomplish this task.

Within this application package, you will find the current copy of the ANSI/AGRSS™ 002-2002 Standard. The AGRSS™ Council allows this copy to be reprinted and used strictly with those under your employment and auto glass installation guidance. Copy rights protection applies to this document beyond this specified and permitted use.

Under Attachment B, each procedural requirement, as indicated within the Standard, is outlined in a manner for you to answer as to whether you, your company and all those associated within your company that work in auto glass replacement will either agree (with a “Yes”) or disagree (with a “No”) toward it’s compliance. As one might expect, only a completed application showing all “Yes’s” can be deemed as being compliant with the Standard. If, for any reason, you only indicate “No” on any procedural requirement, and your “No” is a result of not understanding either the meaning or intention of the said requirement, you may send your completed application to the same prescribed address and the AGRSS™ Administrator will provide assistance in bringing understanding to those requirements in question. Then you can determine whether you desire to change your response to “Yes”, indicating your agreement to be compliant. If all requirements are then marked “Yes”, you may resubmit a new application, indicating such, along with the application fee to attain AGRSS™ acceptance of your commitment to be in full compliance with the Standard.

If further information is required, please contact:

AGRSS™ Council
c/o CM Services
800 Roosevelt Road
Building C-312
Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137

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