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What is ISO

The International Organization for Standardization, widely known as ISO, is an international-standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations. Founded on 23 February 1947, the organization promulgates worldwide proprietary industrial and commercial standards. It has its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland While ISO defines itself as a non-governmental organization, its ability to set standards that often become law, through either treaties or national standards, makes it more powerful than most non-governmental organizations

Why standards matter

Standards make an enormous and positive contribution to most aspects of our lives.

Standards ensure desirable characteristics of products and services such as quality, environmental friendliness, safety, reliability, efficiency, and interchangeability – and at an economical cost.

 When products and services meet our expectations, we tend to take this for granted and be unaware of the role of standards. However, when standards are absent, we soon notice. We soon care when products turn out to be of poor quality, do not fit, are incompatible with equipment that we already have, are unreliable or dangerous.

When products, systems, machinery, and devices work well and safely, it is often because they meet standards. And the organization responsible for many thousands of the standards which benefit the world is ISO.

What Standards Do

ISO standards:

make the development, manufacturing, and supply of products and services more efficient, safer, and cleaner facilitate trade between countries and make it fairer

provide governments with a technical base for health, safety, and environmental legislation, and conformity assessment share technological advances and good management practice disseminate innovation safeguard consumers, and users in general, of products and services, make life simpler by providing solutions to common problems Whom standards benefit ISO standards provide technological, economic and societal benefits.

  • For businesses, the widespread adoption of International Standards means that suppliers can develop and offer products and services meeting specifications that have wide international acceptance in their sectors. Therefore, businesses using International Standards can compete in many more markets around the world.
  • For innovators of new technologies, International Standards on aspects like terminology, compatibility, and safety speed up the dissemination of innovations and their development into manufacturable and marketable products.
  • For customers, the worldwide compatibility of technology which is achieved when products and services are based on International Standards gives them a broad choice of offers. They also benefit from the effects of competition among suppliers.
  • For governments, International Standards provide the technological and scientific bases underpinning health, safety, and environmental legislation.
  • For trade officials, International Standards create “a level playing field” for all competitors in those markets. The existence of divergent national or regional standards can create technical trade barriers. International Standards are the technical means by which political trade agreements can be put into practice.
  • For developing countries, International Standards that represent an international consensus on the state of the art are an important source of technological know-how. By defining the characteristics that products and services will be expected to meet on export markets, International Standards give developing countries a basis for making the right decisions when investing their scarce resources and thus avoid squandering them.
  • For consumers, conformity of products and services to International Standards assures their quality, safety, and reliability.
  • For everyone, International Standards contribute to the quality of life in general by ensuring that the transport, machinery, and tools we use are safe.
  • For the planet, we inhabit, International Standards on air, water, and soil quality, on emissions of gases and radiation, and environmental aspects of products can contribute to efforts to preserve the environment.
  • There are more than enough ISO standards to confuse any organization that’s looking to get certified. Today, over 16,000 standards are being used by certifying bodies to assess, monitor, and audit any organization seeking to improve its quality management system. Here is a short explanation of what these standards are and their specific usages Top 10 Most Popular ISO Standards