Visualize a situation where you are purchasing a pack of chips and the following day you start encountering severe diarrhoea, You bought a cooker, and the next day while cooking the pressure cooker explodes, you buy a Room cooler, and the next day you encounter drastic current shock!
Isn’t it terrifying! Purchasing any product would be a great headache for you. This is where International standards come into action.
Following are few organizations that create voluntary technical standards under the surveillance and administration of thousands of specialists.
1. ITU( International Telecommunication Union)
2. ASME ( American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
3. IEC ( International Electrotechnical Commission)
4. ISO( The International Organisation of Standardisation)
6. IEEE(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
7. IESBA ( International ethics standards board for accountants)
World Standards Day
World Standard Day or International Standards Day is observed each year on October 14. The date of 14 October commemorates the conference of representatives from 25 nations in London on 14 October 1946 which agreed to ascertain a committee whose sole intent would be to promote and decide standards for commodities.
The observation of this day celebrates the cumulative efforts of thousands of experts for bringing standardization to the global economy.
These established standards played a crucial role in the Industrial Revolution and presently these assist in the development and evolution of technology ranging from food services to telecommunication.
These set standards make the life of a consumer easier and provide them with accurate information regarding the product they are investing their hard-earned money in. These International standards not only help to provide the best products to the consumer but also keep a check on energy misuse, and water, air & land pollution that generally occurs during the manufacturing of a product in the factory!
These standards that we are seeing today have taken lots of effort of experts. Let us celebrate this World Standard Day by taking some time out of our fast-paced schedule and being thankful for these standards because purchasing and selling goods would have been havoc without them!
