When standards change, know what’s what in no time with BSI Update Standards

Do you want to know which changes to British or international standards will affect you and your business? Which standards are new? Which have been withdrawn, or updated? Where has new standards work started? Which European standards have been published?

Get the answers to these and many other questions in the 60+ pages of the July edition of Update Standards magazine.

Find your way to the relevant changes with an easy-to-use reference index. (And, for BSI Members, there are back issues going back 12 years.)

Find out what’s changed now, all in one place. Here are just two highlights:

UPDATED: BS EN 619 Continuous handling equipment and systems. Safety requirements for equipment for mechanical handling of unit loads

Do you manufacture or use continuous handling equipment? To increase safety, we’ve just updated BS EN 619:2022 which covers with belt, chain, mobile and roller conveyors, and systems.

Learn more here

NEW: BS 8102 Protection of below ground structures against water ingress. Code of practice

Be confident your below ground structures are protected from water. BS 8102:2022 gives recommendations and provides guidance on methods for dealing with and preventing the entry of water from surrounding ground into a structure below ground level. It’s an important tool for helping users adopt best practice in basement waterproofing and achieve effective and efficient results.

Learn more here

Every month, this is what the free monthly BSI Update Standards magazine covers:

• New and revised British Standards (BS) that were
made available last month.

• British Standard implementations of the English language
versions of European Standards (ENs).

• BS implementations of ISO or IEC standards.

• Published documents (PDs).

• BSI Flex

• Designated standards

• Corrigenda to British Standards. (Alteration and/or addition to a standard that corrects one or more errors or ambiguities introduced in either drafting or production.) Note: Most amendments are not issued separately. Those that make significant changes to a standard are incorporated into the standard which is reissued (see ’Updated British Standards’). British Standards which have been corrected via corrigenda are available on request, free of charge to past purchasers of the standard. All amendments and corrigenda to date of despatch are included within any main publication when ordered for the first time.

• Updated British Standards Note: Updated British Standards must be reordered as the amendments are not available separately.

• British standards reviewed and confirmed

• British standards proposed for withdrawal

• British standards withdrawn

* British Standards under review

* Draft British Standards for public comment – National British Standards

• Draft British standards for public comment - Adoptions

• New standards work started

• Documents not issued as drafts for public comment

• CEN European standards

• Cenelec publications

* CEN Technical Specifications

* CEN Reports

• IEC publications

• ISO publications

Every month, BSI’s Update Standards magazine really is the go-to-place to keep pace with the ever-changing world of standards. And if you ever want to look back at previous editions, BSI Members can find the archive of Update Standards magazines here going back twelve years.