This glossary is intended to address these questions and many others. This serves a variety of purposes, from helping identify appropriate international standards, to providing official titles and descriptions.

We have broken the standards down by number for ease of use, and then within each page, listed them in ascending order. To idenify a standard, simply navigate to the standard you are seeking, or perhaps search using the facility provided.

BSI is the British Standards Institution, which is the oldest standards body in the world. It actually stems from a meeting of various industrial institutes in 1901 which created a long running committee for standards, which later evolved into the BSI as it is today. Incredably, BSI alone has over 20,000 standards!

On a different tack, sometimes outsourcing is sometimes an option, in that it potentially transfers the function into a more quality oriented environment.