BSI and ISO Blog

ISO, or to give it it’s longer name “International Organization for Standardization” (in French “Organisation internationale de normalisation”), is an international standard setting organisation and the world’s largest publisher of industrial and commercial standards. (more…)

An ISO number has a distinct format

An ISO number has a distinct format i.e. ISO 9001:2008, ISO [as the publisher] 9001 [the standard number] :2008 [the year of publication]. Some standards may start ISO/IEC as with ISO/IEC 15423:2005, this would indicate that a standard has been developed by the JTC1 “Joint Technical Committee” of the ISO and IEC.

Why ISO, not IOS?

The International Organization for Standardization has two official languages, English and French and its logo includes the word ISO. ISO is a word not an acronym of the organisations name in either language, and is pronounced “aɪsoʊ”. (more…)