The International Confederation of Contamination Control Societies (ICCCS) is an international community for national societies on cleanrooms and contamination control. From each country, only one society can be a member and represent their country. At the moment there are 19 members and India is represented by CCSI (Contamination Control Society of India). ICCCS members organise an international symposium every two years in the even years, the latest conference called ISCC’18 was held at The Hague, Netherlands in September 2018 and the next one will be held in Turkey in 2020.
IEC is the International Education Committee for accreditation of cleanroom courses of ICCCS members. The goal of the IEC is harmonizing and sharing cleanroom courses. IEC promotes the preparation and accreditation of internationally-recognized educational courses for people who design and test and monitor, operate, and work as operators in cleanrooms.
IEC accredits Cleanroom and Contamination Control courses that treat subjects according to the relevant ISO standards. Courses are accredited within ‘Accreditation Guidelines’ set down by IEC. People attending courses will be certified by examination and each successful candidate is awarded a certificate with the ICCCS Education logo and has their name placed on the website. A quality assurance system has been established to ensure a high standard of courses and includes such requirements as:
- Suitable course content
- Relevant and up-to-date notes or textbooks
- Expert Lecturers
- The setting of clear and unambiguous exam questions
- Suitable exam marking practices
- Board to audit the course and exams
- Public traceability of a person’s certificate.
CCSI has 3 accredited courses, one Associate Level and two Advanced Level.
Our Chairman Sheesh Gulati serves on the ICCCS Education Committee.
Three experts from CCSI are ICCCS Accredited Trainers — Sant Advani, Gautham Baliga, and Sheesh Gulati
ICCCS has a liaison with TC209, the Technical Committee of ISO cleanroom standards. International meetings of ICCCS, IEC, and TC209 are aligned yearly.
For more information on ICCCS, please visit their website: