IHS BSI - British Standards Institution

The British Standards Institution (BSI) is the National Standards Body representing the interests of the UK across all of the European and international standards organizations and through their committees. Independent of government, BSI is globally recognized as an impartial body serving both the private and public sectors. BSI works with manufacturing and service industries, businesses, governments and consumers to facilitate the production of British, European (including EU harmonized standards), and international standards.

British Standards have been adopted by many other countries and international standards bodies and are especially vital to exporters and importers in their engineering, design, procurement, manufacturing, and quality assurance departments. There are currently more than 21,000 British Standards including the management systems series..

IHS Provides BSI Standards in the Following Formats

• British Standards Service on IHS ERC
• Intranet or Extranet - Documents reside on corporate internal networks (depending on individual licensing agreements) for quick desktop access, retrieval and sharing.
• DVD - For locations with strict security or where online communications is an issue.
• Individual Standards - Individual standards documents may be ordered from the IHS Standards Store in hardcopy format. IHS subscription customers may purchase individual Portable Document Format (PDF) documents.

Benefits of IHS Specs & Standards at a glance:

• World’s largest database of industry standards and military documents, with more than 1 million active and historical records from over 370 Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) and the US Government, including full text document images from over 150 SDOs
• Updated daily with new and modified content from the Standards Developing Organizations and US Government — ensuring currency and accuracy of the information provided
• Users can create and maintain project lists, receive email notification when documents update, which helps comply with ISO documentation requirements 
• Offers flexibility in how information is accessed i.e. full collections (e.g. BSI Complete), segmented collections (e.g. BSI Health & Safety Section), industry collections (e.g. PetroChem), custom collections (user creates own document collection), and/or integrated retail option for individual document purchase