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Path: https://www.kan.de/en/publications/kanbrief/safety-of-vehicles/standards-must-not-place-skilled-craft-businesses-at-a-disadvantage

deliberately creating standards that only they meet. This is an obstacle to competition. When all stakeholders are involved in standardization activity on an equal footing, the resulting standards are fair. The [...] responsible for standards...

Path: https://www.kan.de/en/publications/kanbrief/the-eu-and-standardization/evolution-rather-than-revolution

the European standards organizations) are not suitable for this purpose, since the scope for participation is limited and they are not based upon a full consensus. Financing of standardization should not [...] with financing. The time pressure...

Path: https://www.kan.de/en/space-5-responsible-standards-committee-at-din

All stakeholders in a standardization topic [ see Space 8 ] should be represented on a standards committee. The occupational safety and health lobby may be a stakeholder. The standards committee should reach [...] Responsible standards...

Path: https://www.kan.de/en/publications/kanbrief/the-eu-and-standardization/serving-the-quality-of-standards-cencenelec-consultants

quality of standards: CEN/CENELEC Consultants KAN position paper on EN ISO 8041 causes a buzz Finally: standards for recyclable and waste material presses Occupational health & safety and standardization in Malta [...] KANBrief 3/10 Serving the...

Path: https://www.kan.de/en/publications/kanbrief/standardization-in-healthcare/technical-regulation-at-the-vdi

set out in a standard. Where European or international standardization is an objective, VDI standards serve in some cases as a basis for ISO , IEC or EN standards. Through its body of standards, the VDI aims [...] published the draft of a stand...

Path: https://www.kan.de/en/publications/kanbrief/standardization-and-the-safety-and-health-of-workers-at-work/standards-development-operators-involvement-essential

of work equipment are supported by harmonized standards. The closer operators are involved in the development of standards, the more relevant the standards are to industrial practice and the more efficiently [...] procedures, where governed by ...

Path: https://www.kan.de/en/publications/kanbrief/how-much-policy-does-standardization-need/mandated-standards-how-exactly-does-that-work

content of standards and a deadline by which the standards must be adopted. An essential goal of EU standardization policy is for example for the time required for the development of standards to be reduced [...] 2/14 Mandated standards: how...

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ctor standardization systems have developed in very different directions. Almost 600 standards bodies exist in the USA. The majority are accredited by ANSI (the American National Standardization Institute) [...] a member of ISO. ANSI however...

Path: https://www.kan.de/en/publications/kanbrief/the-prevention-instrument-of-standardization/effective-standardization-tools-of-the-trade-for-osh-experts

(DGUV) and KAN hold events suitable for both newcomers to standardization and experienced standardization experts. All aspects in the life of a standard, from the application for its development through to [...] with the topic of standardizatio...

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institutions and the standards organizations. Owing to their great practical significance and their function of describing the state of the art, standards have a major impact. Modern standards not only set out [...] KANBrief 1/15: Standardizati...