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British Standards are produced by BSI British Standards, a division of BSI Group. It is incorporated under a Royal Charter and is formally designated as the National Standards Body (NSB) for the UK. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (817x1010, 50 KB) Summary British Standards Institution, now know as British Standards, kite mark logo. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (817x1010, 50 KB) Summary British Standards Institution, now know as British Standards, kite mark logo. ... BSI Group, also known in its home market as the British Standards Institution (or BSI) is a multinational business services provider whose principal activity is the production of standards and the supply of standards-related services. ... For the ship of the same name, see Royal Charter (ship). ... A standards organization, also sometimes referred to as a standards body, a standards development organization or SDO (depending on what is being referenced), is any entity whose primary activities are developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, amending, reissuing, interpreting, or otherwise maintaining standards that address the interests of a wide base of...

The standards

The standards produced are titled British Standard XXXX[-P]:YYYY where XXXX is the number of the standard, P is the number of the part of the standard (where the standard is split into multiple parts) and YYYY is the year in which the standard came into effect. British Standards currently has over 27,000 active standards. Products are commonly specified as meeting a particular British Standard, and in general this can be done without any certification or independent testing. The standard simply provides a shorthand way of claiming that certain specifications are met, while encouraging manufacturers to adhere to a common method for such a specification.

The Kitemark can be used to indicate certification by BSI, but only where a Kitemark scheme has been set up around a particular standard. It is mainly applicable to safety and quality management standards. There is a common misunderstanding that Kitemarks are necessary to prove compliance with any BS standard, but in general it is neither desirable nor possible that every standard be 'policed' in this way.

History

BSI Group began in 1901 as the Engineering Standards Committee, led by James Mansergh, to standardise the number and type of steel sections, in order to make British manufacturers more efficient and competitive. Year 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... James Mansergh (1824 - 1905) was an English civil engineer. ... For other uses, see Steel (disambiguation). ...

Over time the standards developed to cover many aspects of tangible engineering, and then engineering methodologies including quality systems, safety and security.

Examples of British Standards

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• BS 0 A standard for standards specifies Development, Structure and Drafting of British Standards themselves.
• BS 381 for colours used in identification, coding and other special purposes
• BS 476 for fire resistance of building materials / elements
• BS 546 for mains power plugs and sockets (older standard)
• BS 1192 for Construction Drawing Practice. Part 5 (BS1192-5:1998) concerns Guide for structuring and exchange of CAD data.
• BS 1363 for mains power plugs and sockets
• BS 1852 resistor and capacitor value coding
• BS 4343 for industrial electrical power connectors
• BS 4800 for paint colours used in building construction
• BS 4900 for vitreous enamel colours used in building construction
• BS 4901 for plastic colours used in building construction
• BS 4902 for sheet / tile floor covering colours used in building construction
• BS 5252 for colour-coordination in building construction
• BS 5499 for graphical symbols and signs in building construction; including shape, colour and layout
• BS 5750 for quality management, the source for ISO 9000
• BS 5930 for site investigations
• BS 5950 for structural steel
• BS 6312 for telephone plugs and sockets
• BS 6879 for British geocodes, a superset of ISO 3166-2:GB
• BS 6880 Process for trying not to laugh when someone says BS Institute or Chiswick
• BS 7671 Requirements for Electrical Installations, the IET (formerly IEE) electrical "regs"
• BS 7799 for information security, the source for ISO/IEC 27001, 27002 (former 17799), and 27005
• BS 7925-1 Vocabulary of terms in software testing
• BS 7925-2 Software component testing
• BS 8110 for structural concrete
• BS 8494 for detecting and measuring carbon dioxide in ambient air or extraction systems
• BS 15000 for IT Service Management, (ITIL), now ISO/IEC 20000

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IEC 309 (now IEC 60309, 1999) is an international standard from the International Electrotechnical Commission for plugs, socket_outlets and couplers for industrial purposes. It specifies a range of mains power connectors with circular housings, and different numbers and arrangements of pins for different applications. ... ISO 9000 specifies requirements for a Quality Management System overseeing the production of a product or service. ... ISO has many meanings: Iso is the stem of the Latin transliteration of the Greek word ίσος (ísos, meaning equal). The iso- prefix in English derives from this and means equality or similarity. ... BS 5930:1999, the code of practice for site investigations, is a UK code of practice published in October 1999 by the British Standards Institute. ... A man tries to get an undisturbed soil sample. ... BS 5950 is the British Standard for the design, fabrication and erection of structural steelwork. ... British telephone plug with only two pins present, from a modem cable BS6312 is the British Standard governing telephone plugs and sockets. ... The ISO 3166-2 codes for the United Kingdom correspond to the nations administrative divisions. ... The ISO 3166-2 codes for the United Kingdom correspond to the nations administrative divisions. ... BS 7671 is a publication from the IET (Formerly known as The IEE) in agreement with the BSI British Standards Institute (UK). ... IET logo The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is the professional institution for engineering and technology in the United Kingdom. ... Not to be confused with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE, I-triple-E). ... BS 7799 Part 1 was a standard originally published as BS 7799 by the British Standards Institute (BSI) in 1995. ... ISO/IEC 27001 part of a growing family of ISO/IEC standards, the ISO/IEC 27000 series is an information security management system (ISMS) standard published in October 2005 by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). ... ISO/IEC 27002 is an information security standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) as ISO/IEC 17799:2005 and subsequently renumbered ISO/IEC 27002:2005 in July 2007, bringing it into line with the other ISO/IEC 27000-series standards. ... ISO/IEC 27005 is an information security standard being currently developped by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). ... BS 7925-1 is a Glossary of Software Testing Terms, along with its partner BS 7925-2 Software component testing. ... BS 7925-2 is the Software Component Testing Standard, along with its partner BS 7925-1 which is a Glossary of Software Testing Terms. ... BS 8110 is a British Standard for the structural use of concrete External Link BSI website ‹The stub template below has been proposed for deletion or renaming. ... BS 8494 is a 2007 British Standard for portable apparatus designed to detect and measure carbon dioxide in ambient air or extraction systems. ... ISO/IEC 20000 is the first international standard for IT Service Management. ... IT Service Management (ITSM) is a discipline for managing large-scale information technology (IT) systems, philosophically centered on the ITSM stands in deliberate contrast to technology-centered approaches to IT management and business interaction. ... Atil, also spelled Itil (Turkic for Big River), was a name of the Volga River and of the capital of Khazaria from the middle of the 8th century until towards the end of the 10th century. ... ISO/IEC 20000 is the first international standard for IT Service Management. ...

Publicly Available Specifications

BSI also publishes a series of Publicly Available Specification (PAS) documents. // Publicly Available Specifications (PAS) a Publicly Available Specification is a flexible and rapid standards development model that is open to all organizations. ...

Publicly Available Specifications (PAS) are a flexible and rapid standards development model that is open to all organizations. A PAS is a sponsored piece of work allowing organizations flexibility in the creation of a rapid standard while also allowing for a greater degree of control over the document's development. A typical development timeframe for a PAS is around 6-9 months. Once published by BSI a PAS has all the functionality of a British Standard for the purposes of creating schemes such as management systems and product benchmarks as well as codes of practice. A PAS is a living document and after two years the document will be reviewed and a decision made with the client as to whether or not this should be taken forward to become a formal British standard.

Examples

• PAS 78: Guide to good practice in commissioning accessible websites
• PAS 55- 1: Asset management - Specification for the optimized management of physical infrastructure assests
• PAS 72: Responsible Fishing - Specification of good practice for fishing vessels
• PAS 911: Fire strategies - guidance and framework for their formulation
• PAS 82: Shopfitting - Management system specification
• PAS 77: IT Service continuity Management - Code of Practice

• BSI PAS 100 Composting specification
• BSI PAS 101 Specification for recovered container glass
• BSI PAS 102 Specification for processed glass for selected secondary end markets
• BSI PAS 103 Specification for quality and guidance for good practice in collection and preparation for recycling
• BSI PAS 104 Specification for quality and guidance for good practice for the supply of post consumer wood for consumption in the manufacture of panel board products
• BSI PAS 105 Specification for paper waste

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Availability

Copies of British Standards are sold by BSI Business Information [1]. They can also be ordered via the publishing units of many other national standards bodies (ANSI, DIN, etc.) and from several specialized suppliers of technical specifications. The American National Standards Institute or ANSI (pronounced an-see) is a nonprofit organization that oversees the development of standards for products, services, processes and systems in the United States. ... Look up din in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Many British Standards (BS) – as well as some of the European and International Standards that were adopted as British Standards (BS EN, BS ISO) – are also available in public and university libraries in the United Kingdom, either on paper or online via a British Standards Online subscription. However, the BSI makes standards available to these libraries only under licence restrictions which forbid loan, inter-library loan, open-shelf access, and copying of more than 10% of a document by library users[2]. The BSI library in Chiswick charges visiting members of the public a fee of £10 per hour although this is free to "members of the BSI, students & accredited journalists" [3]. For other uses, see Chiswick (disambiguation). ...

See also

• Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (EU)

The Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements or IRMM, located in Geel, Belgium, is one of the seven institutes of the Joint Research Centre (JRC), a Directorate-General of the European Commission (EC). ...

External links

• Official website
• BSI Online Shop
• Subscription information to receive British Standards Online