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 for the children of the world
- Child-resistant packaging
- Climate change
- Complaints handling
- Construction materials under fire
- Cosmetics
- Country and currency codes
- Cranes
- Date and time
- Drawings
- Education
- E-learning, training and education
- Environmental management
- Ergonomics
- Exhibitions
- Fasteners
- Food safety management
- Food safety - microbiology of food
- Freight containers
- Gas
- Cylinders
- Transporting gas safely
- Health software
- Information technology
- CD-ROM
- E-commerce
- E-tools
- Information security management
- IT service management
- Longer lasting PDFs
- SGML and HTML
- Libraries
- Book binding
- 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
- Quality management
- Measurement processes
- Education sector
- 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
- Ships
- Safety
- Management
- Social responsibility
- Sports
- Aquatic equipment
- Ice hockey
- Scuba diving
- Winter sports
- STEP
- Supply chains
- Sustainable development
- Symbols (graphical)
- Textile labelling
- Tourism
- Water
- Wine tasting glass