Safety is the norm – Happy World Standards Day!

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Whether you're wearing a helmet on a building site, safety boots in a workshop or looking at a computer screen in the office – standards underpin many of the things we take for granted in our day-to-day working lives. Quietly and reliably, they ensure that we are protected at work.

Today we pay tribute to all those who work behind the scenes and, through their involvement in standardisation work, ensure that we can go about our daily working lives safely and comfortably.

World Standards Day was established in 1970 by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to draw attention to the role and achievements of standardisation.

World Standards Day website of ISO, IEC and ITU

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