Inspection authority

Means any person who with the aid of specialized knowledge or equipment or after such investigations, test, sampling or analyses as he may consider necessary, and whether for reward or otherwise, renders a service by making special findings, purporting to be objective findings, as to- (a) the health of any person; (b) the safety or risk to health of any work, article, substance, plant or machinery, or of any condition prevalent on or any premises; or (c) the question of whether any particular standard has been or is being complied with, or with respect to any work, article, substance, plant or machinery, or with respect to work or a condition prevalent on or in any premises, or with respect to any other matter, and by issuing a certificate, stating such findings, to the person to whom the service is rendered