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International and National Standards in Health, Safety and Wellbeing

International and national standards in health, safety and wellbeing
Wilson Wong

Introduction

What Are International and National Standards?

Organizations large or small, and regardless of their sector or field of activity, use voluntary International and National Standards as a basis for consistent, coherent, evidence-based practice in a wide range of domains from technical standards in materials to environmental management, organizational governance, data security, and health and safety. Standards matter to governments as they provide a basis for public policy and amplify regulation. They matter to the standards users because they assure the quality, safety, characteristics and specification of a product or a service.

These standards, as standards do, provide an agreed way of doing something, ...

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