The ISO Café

Stressed? Under pressure?  Desperate for information? Stuck for ideas?

Need to know about ISO and international standardization? You may be a student assigned a project, an educator who needs to develop a teaching module, or a journalist with an article deadline to meet.

Welcome to The ISO Café! Go and get yourself a cup of coffee, tea or a refreshing glass of water, relax in front of the screen and discover the big, wide world of ISO standards.

You'll find:

• an Overview of The ISO system in user-friendly language which will teach you the essentials of ISO and what it does
• examples from many areas of life and work showing how ISO standards provide technical, economic and social benefits:

 

• Audiovisual
• Cards
• Children
  • Protecting children
  • Child pedestrian safety
  • Safe toys
  • Child-resistant packaging
• Climate change
• Complaints handling
• Construction (fire resistant)
• Cosmetics
• Country and currency codes
• Cranes
• Date and time
• Disabled persons
  • Ergonomic data
  • IT Office equipment
  • Street crossing
• Drawings
• Education
  • E-learning, training and education
• Environment
  • Environmental impacts of products
  • Plastic recycling
• Ergonomics
• Exhibitions
• Fasteners
• Food/Food safety
  • Spaghetti
  • Microbiology of food
• Freight containers
• Gas
  • Cylinders
  • Transporting gas safely
• Health
  • Cold workplaces
  • Spinal disk implants
• Health software
• Information technology
  • CD-ROM
  • E-commerce
  • E-tools
  • Information security
  • IT service management
  • Longer lasting PDFs
  • Optical discs
  • SGML and HTML
• Libraries
  • Book binding
• Management standards
  • Education
  • Environment
  • IT
  • Food safety
  • Quality
  • Supply chains and security

• Measurement
• Medical devices
• Multimedia
  • Digital TV
  • JPEG
  • MPEG
• Music
• Nanotechnology
• Older persons
• Packaging
  • Dangerous goods
• Paper sizes
• Personal financial planning
• Personal identification number (PIN)
• Petroleum
  • Oil and gas sector
• Plugs and sockets
• Protective clothing
• Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
  • Keeping tabs on the move
  • Animals traceability
• Records management
• Road vehicles
  • Safe natural gas fuel cylinders
  • Vehicle identification number (VIN)
  • WorldSID
• Sensory analysis
  • Vocabulary
  • Wine tasting glass
• Ships
  • Safety
  • Management
• Social responsibility
• Sports
  • Aquatic equipment
  • Ice hockey
  • Scuba diving
  • Ski-touring boots
  • Winter sports
• STEP
• Sustainable development
  • Fisheries and aquaculture
  • Building construction
• Symbols
  • Graphical symbols
  • Water and beach safety flag
• Textile labelling
• Tourism
  • Tourism services
  • Traffic and travel information
• Water