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6.) Quality Assurance
6.) Quality Assurance
AND INTERNATIONAL
STANDARDS
BY
Eng. M S S Fernando
Senior Deputy Director
Sri Lanka Standards Institution.
2016-07-18 (IESL)
STANDARD
Document established by consensus and
approved by a recognized body, that provides
for common and repeated use, rules,
guidelines or characteristics for activities or
their results.
Level of Standardizations
Individual
Company
Association
National
Regional
International
customers
Purchasers
Voluntary co-operative bodies for specific
sectors
National bodies established for that purpose
Regional economic bodies at the global level
International bodies at the apex level
Regulatory bodies
Standards formulation
process
The standards are established by a process of
Proposal stage
Requests may come from:
Ministries
Consumers
Producers
Industries/Associations
Other divisions of SLSI
Members of WG/SC
Sister organizations
Sectoral Committees
Sectoral Committees are approval by the council of SLSI
Members from:
-Manufacturers
-Users/consumers
-Government departments
-Technologists
-Testing experts
-Consultants / universities
-Other experts
Role of Standards
Engineers /Officers
For effective & efficient functioning of Working Group
and Sectoral Committees:
Planning
Organizing & coordinating activities
Collection & presentation of data from industry,
investigations
Conducting industrial surveys
Arranging meetings
Submission of documents
Preparation of minutes
Provide executive assistance to each Sectoral
Committee / Working Group
Committee Stage
Preliminary draft shall be circulated to all
Review of Comments
The Sectoral Committee reviews all comments
Approval Stage
Amendments
Amendment procedure
- Typographical errors and reference changes are
corrected as a matter of routine by issue of Corrigendum
- The technical amendment which alters and/or adds to
previously agreed technical provisions in an existing Sri
Lanka Standard requires Committee approval
- The amendments require approval of the relevant
Sectoral Committee
Revision of Standard
When no of Amendments are made, then the use of
project.
Systematic review
Every standard needs to be reviewed periodically after
publication. When reviewing a standard committee has the
following options:
Reaffirmation indicating continuing current standard without
change
CONTENTS AND
PRESENTATION OF
STANDARD
Scope
Limit of applicability
References
A complete list of other standards and
Requirements
Raw materials
Characteristics required
Model or type
manufacture)
The means of presentation of such markings (name plates, labels, stamps etc)
Location of marking
Methods of test
In a specification any description of a test
Sampling
sampling
drawing samples.
characteristic
DIVERSIFIED SCOPE
Published more than 21000 International Standards,
Experience of International
Consensus
Building
ISO standards are voluntary, the facts that
Experience of International
Consensus
Building
ISO standards are voluntary, the facts that
Members
The national body of each country is accepted
Technical Work
A proposal to begin work in a new field of
How an international
Standards
are
A result of an agreement between the
Developed?
member bodies of ISO
Confirmation of the market requirement for
such a standard.
ISO Central Secretariat register the item.
ISO 9001:2015
ISO 9001:2015 sets out the criteria for a quality management
ISO
14001:2015
ISO 26000:2010
ISO 26000:2010 provides guidance rather than
ISO 50001:2011
Energy Management
System
ISO 22000:2005
ISO 22000:2005 sets out the
IEC International
Electrotechnical Commission
Mission
Scope
Electrical,
Electronics,
Magnetic and electromagnetic,
Electroacoustics,
Energy production and distribution.
to trade
Represent the core of WTOs agreement on TBT
To industry:
Greater product and services quality;
More interoperability;
Framework for economies of design;
Better production and delivery efficiency;
Safety-human health and environment.
International
Telecommunication
Union
(ITU)
Established
as an impartial, international
organization within which governments and
the private sector could work together to
coordinate the operation of
telecommunication networks and services and
advance the development of communications
technology