A message for members from BSI’s new CEO Susan Taylor Martin. Putting the client at centre of our world. Focusing on BSI’s people and ensuring a diverse and truly inclusive environment. Driving individual and collective performance to maximise our impact and deliver our purpose to inspire trust for a more resilient world.
The COVID-19 pandemic has made 2020 a challenging year, but some organizations and individuals have made outstanding efforts to help manage the pandemic and mitigate its impacts. On 19 November 2020, an e-conference in the Special 2020 Edition BSI Standards Awards celebrated those whose efforts made this unprecedented year a little easier.
BSI confirms standards arrangements for post-Brexit transition period. From 31 December 2020 the UK, with exceptions in Northern Ireland, will no longer automatically align with EU rules or obligations. There will be no immediate changes to standards published by BSI, but the new UK regulatory regime does present some important differences that standards makers and users should be aware of.
To make the most of your BSI membership, you should be able to find standards quickly and easily. In order to do this, it is necessary to understand a few things about standards and your options in how to access and manage them.
How do you keep on top of your standards? Standardization management (SM) enables efficient drafting, development and maintenance of industry standards. BS 202000:2020, Standardization management system – Specification, sets out requirements for a standardization management system (SMS).
BSI Flex Standards have been introduced in order to address this problem. Using an iterative online development cycle, Flex captures emerging consensus on best practice in a format that can be swiftly revised and expanded as the field develops.
Every year on 14 October countries around the globe celebrate World Standards Day, marking our appreciation for the standards that we all rely on and paying tribute to the collaborative efforts of thousands of experts worldwide who develop the voluntary technical agreements that are published as standards.
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has revised the international technical specification (TS) relating to the barcodes used on medication packaging. Ensuring the correct identification, labelling and tracking of medicinal products throughout the whole supply chain is essential to help prevent fraudulent pills from entering the market. International machine-readable coding of product packaging is an effective way of achieving that, ISO said.
People who take prescribed or over-the-counter medicines containing opioids for non-cancer pain will now be given stronger warnings about the risk of dependence and addiction, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has announced.
