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Standards in action

This sections gives an overview of ISO's standards and their application in business, government and society with links to relevant information sources on ISO Online.

Hot topics

The Hot topics section presents subjects of international concern and highlights published ISO standards, standards under development and ongoing standardization initiatives that are relevant to these concerns and that can contribute to resolving them. Subjects include: Accessibility; Climate change; Energy; Health informatics; Nanotechnologies, Social responsibility and Sustainable development.

The ISO Portfolio

The ISO sectoral portfolio is an information tool that provides aggregated information on the ISO work covering selected areas of activities, such as: Agriculture; Building construction; Environmental protection; Food technology; Health and medicine; Oil and gas; Plastics and Shipbuilding.

Management and leadership standards

The Management and leadership standards section contains information about ISO 26000 (Social responsability), ISO 31000 (Risk management), ISO 9000 (Quality management), ISO 14000 (Environmental management),, ISO 50001 (Energy management) and other management standards for specific applications, from ship recycling to food safety, as well as energy, education or customer satisfaction. Information on certification, compatibility, benefits, etc.

The ISO Café

The ISO Café shows examples from many areas of life and work showing how ISO standards provide technical, economic and social benefits, all in user-friendly language .

ISO Focus+

The ISO magazine publishes 10 times a year a special report on an important sector of standardization.

News

Press releases giving information on recently published standards.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

The FAQs pages contain responses to common questions about ISO and its activities and links to more information resources.

Widely used standards

The Widely used standards section contains information on popular ISO standards, such as ISO 3166 (country codes), MPEG, ISO 80000 (quantities and units), ISO 4217 (currency codes) and more.

Economic and social benefits of standardization

The ISO/IEC inventory of studies on the economic and social benefits of standardization focuses on recent and original field research.