March’s BSI Update Standards Magazine: copper plumbing, water quality and creating inclusive standards

March’s Update Standards magazine is your go-to information source for changes to the standards that affect you and your business.

Inside the nearly 50 pages of the March issue are new, revised, withdrawn, BS implementations of European standards, new standards started, and standards open to public comment, and lots more.

It’s where to find the very latest up-to-the-minute standards information (link), all arranged with an easy-to-use reference index to help you to find any changes to your sector’s standards quickly.

The March 2022 highlights include:

Standards ensuring the long-term quality of copper plumbing fittings.

BS EN 1254-1:2021 Copper and copper alloys - Plumbing fittings - Part 1: Capillary fittings for soldering or brazing to copper tubes, and BS EN 1254-2:2021 Copper and copper alloys.

These are the first two in a nine-standard series that deals with plumbing fittings made from copper and copper alloys. The standards are intended to ensure that fittings have a longevity of up to 50 years and have the capacity to protect consumers and assure all concerned that fittings are of high quality. This in turn creates marketplace confidence, reduces trade barriers, manages risk more effectively, and increases the marketability of fittings that adhere to these specifications.

Water quality standards BS 8580-2:2022 & BS 7592:2022

Both these standards help duty holders, managers, and water safety group members increase their expertise on how microbial hazards spread, and help them prioritize actions and minimize risks.
To validate that you’re controlling legionellae in an effective, efficient and compliant way, you should now use BS 7592:2022. For information and support with prioritizing actions and minimizing the risks from PA and other waterborne pathogens, you should now use BS 8580-2:2022.

BSI Flex 236 v1.0: 2022-01 Enabling the development of inclusive standards: understanding the role of data and data analysis – Guide

BSI Flex 236 v1.0:2022-01 is a tool for enabling the development of inclusive standards across all sectors and gives guidance on how data can be used in the development of all types of standards. This flex supports standards makers develop their confidence and expertise, strengthen risk management, and minimize harm to produce robust outputs that will serve a diverse population without bias.

Critical amendment to sterilization standard now protects newborns

We’ve now amended the international standard giving limits for residues of ethylene oxide on sterilized medical devices. As a result: BS EN ISO 10993-7:2008+A1:2022 Biological evaluation of medical devices -- Part 7: Ethylene oxide sterilization residuals now includes limits that are explicitly protective of newborn babies.

Free Webinar: Farm to Fork: the challenges of sustainable food

Join us on the 29 March at 10.00-11.00am where we will come together to take a fresh look at the future of food in order to help organizations consider their own behaviour and actions when it comes to sustainability. We will be covering: 

• Net Zero goals
• Social sustainability to help feed a growing population
• How to drive improvement within your organisation

Webinar Date: 29 March 10.00 - 11.00 Register here now

BSI Flex 260 v1.0: 2022-01 Built environment– Digital twins overview and principles – Guide

BSI has produced a first Flex standard providing broad, general and background information for people who create, manage and use digital twins in the built environment. It gives guidance on the general principles of a digital twin for the built environment and applies to digital twins across the life cycle or existence and interaction of assets, systems, and process use cases and interfaces.

Every month, this is what the free monthly 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).
• 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.)
• Updated British Standards
• British standards reviewed and confirmed
• British standards proposed for withdrawal
• British standards withdrawn
• New standards work started
• Draft British standards for public comment - national British standards
• Draft British standards for public comment – Adoptions
• Documents not issued as drafts for public comment
• CEN European standards, CEN reports
• Cenelec publications
• IEC publications
• ISO publications

Standards Update 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 previous Update Standards magazines here.

Update Standards is your monthly go-to place for standards updates. Don’t miss it, this March, and every month of the year.