Code of Practice, International

Any recognized code of practice, internal or external, has been considered. 

MMB, 2013. Code of Practice Internal Erosion (MMB). Karlsruhe Bundesanstalt fiir Wasserbau. Available from http //www.baw.de/en/die baw/publikationen/merkblaetter/ index.php.html. 

Standard The maximum level of an air contaminant allowed in workplace or external air as defined by a legal authority, Or any national or international standard relating to a product or code of practice. 

The need for building control arose primarily to protect the health and safety of the population and, latterly, to conserve fuel and power and prevent waste. Local and State Building Regulations give standards of performance necessary in the building and, as such, make reference to national and international standards and codes of practice. The regulations cover two areas of health and safety and can be subdivided as follows ... 

Code of Practice No. 10, Part 1 (first stage of revision), Containers Attached to Mobile Gas-fired Equipment Code of Practice No. 20, Safe handling of LPG used as an Internal Combustion Engine Fuel for Motor Vehicles Code of Practice No. 12, Safe filling of LPG cylinders at depots... 

These terms are derived from various sources, principally from the List of Definitions of Essential Telecommunications Terms (Part I, Corrosion), International Telecommunications Union, Geneva, 1957, 1st Supplement, I960, and the B.S.I. Code of Practice for Cathodic Protection, CP102I 1973 terms taken from the Code of Practice are marked with an asterisk. 

Advisory Group are considering different facets of LCA. In 1993, they developed the Code of Practice ,the first worldwide accepted technical framework for LCA. This was an important step towards the harmonisation of the method and has initiated and supported the standardisation process by ISO. Between 1997 and 2000, ISO produced the international series of standard defining the different stages of the LCA methodology (ISO 14040 1997, ISO 14041 1998, ISO 14042 2000 ° as well as ISO 14043 2000° ). As mentioned above, these standards were replaced by two improved editions of life cycle assessment standards in 2006 (ISO 14040 2006 and ISO 14044 2006°). 

Throughout this book the regulatory regime is referred to as Labour Code , a translation of the French Code du Travail . All countries have national regulatory codes, some of which reflect wider imperatives (eg ED directories, ILO conventions, UN standards). In adddition, there are many technical and other codes of practice or procedure produced by national or international professional, technical and industrial organisations. Exampies of the former are the reguiatory codes of the HSE and The EA in the UK, and of OSHA and ERA in the USA and of the latter, the NFPA, which is referred to extensively in this book. 

The recognised body in the United Kingdom for the preparation of specifications for quality, performance or dimensions, methods of test, definitions and symbols, codes of practice, etc. British Standards are prepared under the guidance of representative committees and are widely circulated before they are authorised for publication. BSI co-operates in preparing international standards for rubber and plastics through ISO/TC45 and ISO/TC61 respectively. See ISO. 

The Codex Alimentarius is a collection of internationally adopted food standards presented in a uniform manner.6 These food standards aim to protect the consumer s health and ensure fair practices in the food trade. The Codex Alimentarius also includes provisions of an advisory nature in the form of codes of practice, guidelines and other recommended measures. Codex standards contain requirements for food including provisions for food additives. 

Codex Alimentarius (1997). Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme. International code of practice - general principles of food hygiene, in General Requirements (Food Hygiene), Codex Alimentarius (supplement to volume IB), FAO/WHO, Rome. 

The Codex Alimentarius Commission was created in 1963 by FAO and WHO to develop food standards, guidelines, and related texts such as codes of practice under the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Program. The main purposes of this Program are to protect the health of the consumers and to ensure fair trade practices in the food trade, and to promote the coordination of all food standards work undertaken by international governmental and nongovernmental organizations (CA 2007). 

The laboratory shall identify the inputs that affect the design and development of the laboratory processes and facihtate their effective and efficient performance. Inputs are defined from external as well as internal needs and expectations. External inputs are drawn from customers, suppliers, users of the laboratory output, statutory and regulatory requirements, international or national standards, industry codes of practice etc. Internal inputs are drawn from policies and objectives, needs and expectations of people, technological development, past experience etc. 

The EU has approved Council Directive No. 92/28/EEClO (of 31 March 1992, now consolidated as Articles 86 to 100 of Directive 2001/83/EC) on the advertising of medicinal products for human use, thus bringing Member States into line with common requirements and standards. The UK regulations have been amended to comply with the Directive. The Directive, Part IV of the UK Medicines Act 1968 as amended by the Advertising Regulations, and the ABPl Code of Practice for the Pharmaceutical Industry are broadly in line with one another. The commentary below on promotion relates primarily to the United Kingdom. While there have been some moves towards the international harmonisation of controls on promotion, these have had only a limited effect, despite the fact that in Europe, Member States all comply with Directive 92/28. 

Materials relating to the provision of medical and educational goods and services, such as internal instructions, external instructions, the written protocol for recipients and printed material etc, must be examined by the Code of Practice signatories within companies to ensure that the requirements of the Code are met as recommended in the supplementary information to Clause 14.1 of the Code. 

Appropriate arrangements should be in place for training on the requirements of the Code. These may be internal arrangements for appropriate staff members but key personnel should attend one of the seminars organised by the Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority. 

Codex General Standardfor Irradiated Foods and Recommended International Code of Practice for the Operation of Radiation Facilities Used for the Treatment of Food, CAC/Vol. XV-Ed. 1, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Rome, 1984. 

Standards is a general term covering the documents published by a standards making body, such as the International Standards Organisation (ISO). The word specification is reserved for those standards which specify minimum requirements for materials or products. Other types of standard include Methods of Test, Glossaries of Terms, Guides and Codes of Practice. It follows that a specification may refer to several methods of test and that a commercially written specification can refer to nationally or internationally standardised test methods. 

In 1961/62 the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) established the Joint FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) to elaborate international food standards and codes of practice for questions related to food. Questions concerning contaminants were dealt with, partly by the Commodity Committees and partly in the Codex Committee for Food Additives and Contaminants (CCFAC). The Codex Alimentarius system concerning contaminants is described in section 12.2. 

The Joint FAOAVHO Food Standard Programme and the Codex Alimentarius Commission elaborate international food standards and codes of practice for questions related to food. Codex Alimentarius is Latin and means food code. The purpose of the Joint FAOAVHO Food Standards Programme, as laid down in the statutes of the Codex Alimentarius Commission includes... 

ISO/IEC, International Standard ISO/IEC 17799 2000 Code of Practice for Information Security Management, 2000... 

There are national codes of practice for the preparation of MSDSs. The current trend is to use an internationally recognized 16-point standard. This is a comprehensive document referring to how and where to obtain the information as well as including approved terms and forms of wording that must be avoided, for example, the use of N/A, which could mean either "not applicable" or "not available." Such terms should be written out in full. An outline of the international standard is included at the end of this chapter. 

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