Brochure on ISO/IEC Guides Targets Consumers, Manufacturers, Regulators
January 17, 2008 // Published as a news service by IHS
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The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) published a free brochure providing an overview of their joint guides.
Titled How ISO/IEC Guides add value to international standards, the brochure covers ISO/IEC publications that are of general interest to:
- Standards writers.
- Consumer representatives in standardization.
- Designers.
- Product manufacturers.
- Service providers.
- Retail chains.
- Testing laboratories.
- regulators and associations representing the interests of consumers.
- The disabled, children and senior citizens.
- Environmentalists and academics and their students.
The new brochure, which is written in English and French, describes the ISO/IEC guides on the following topics:
- The vocabulary of standardization.
- Drafting standards for conformity assessment.
- Purchase information on goods and services intended for consumers.
- Instructions for use of products by consumers.
- Packaging that meets consumer needs.
- Comparative testing of consumer products and related services.
- Child safety.
- Safety aspects in standards.
- Environmental aspects in standards.
- Meeting the needs of older persons and persons with disabilities in standards.
- Justifying the need for management system standards.
- Risk management vocabulary.
- Graphical symbols that meet consumer needs.
- Taking consumer issues into account in service standards.
- The expression of uncertainty in measurement (upcoming publication).
- The vocabulary of metrology (upcoming publication).
Print and electronic versions are available. For more information, go to http://www.iso.org.
Source: International Organization for Standardization (ISO).