Organizations American National Standards

Air quality Water quality Waste disposal Research-regulating agencies U. S. Public Health Service Centers for Disease Control National Institutes of Health National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health U. S. Department of Agriculture U. S. Department of Energy U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U. S. Department of Transportation Consensus-rule-making organizations American National Standards Institute National Sanitary Foundation Underwriters Laboratories (U. S.) Canadian Standards Association (Canada) National Fire Protection Association (U. S.)... 

Several countries have developed their own standard test methods for cellular plastics, and the International Organization for Standards (ISO) Technical Committee on Plastics TC-61 has been developing international standards. Information concerning the test methods for any particular country or the ISO procedures can be obtained in the United States from the American National Standards Institute. The most complete set of test procedures for cellular plastics, and the most used of any in the world, is that developed by the ASTM these procedures are pubUshed in new editions each year (128). There have been several reviews of ASTM methods and others pertinent to cellular plastics (32,59,129—131). 

ANSI Reporter and Standards Action American National Standards Institute The monthly M/V.97 Eeporternews of poHcy-level actions on standardization taken by ANSI, the international organizations to which it belongs, and the government. Standards Fiction biweekly, Hsts for pubHc review and comment standards proposed for ANSI approval. It also reports on final approval actions on standards, newly pubUshed American National Standards, and proposed actions on national and international technical work. These two pubHcations replace The Magafine of Standards which ANSI, formerly The American Standards Association, discontinued in 1971. 

To reduce detailed written descriptions on flowsheets, it is usual practice to develop or adopt a set of s) mbols and codes which suit the purpose. Flowsheet symbol standardization has been developed by various professional and technical organizations for their particular fields. Most of these have also been adopted by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The following symbol references are related and useful for many chemical and mechanical processes ... 

The leading organization in the development of standards in the United States is the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). It is the member body representing the United States in the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the Pan American Standards Commission (COPANT). ANSI does not write any standards. It promotes standardization, coordinates efforts toward standardization, and approves standards. It annually publishes a list of American... 

ANSI American National Standards Institute, a private organization that is engaged in creating voluntary standards or characteristics and performance of materials, products, systems, and services. 

GENERAL NOTE TO LIST OF ORGANIZATIONS Some of the organizations listed above publish standards that have been approved as American National Standards. Copies of these standards may also be obtained from ... 

American National Standards Institute (ANSI) ANSI has served in its capacity as administrator and coordinator of the United States private sector voluntary standardization system for 80 years. The Institute is a private, nonprofit membership organization supported by a diverse constituency of private and public sector organizations. ANSI Z21.83 has been published and provides a means of testing and certifying the safety of stationary fuel cell power plants having a capacity of less than 1 MW. 

International Organization for Standardization publications are available from the American National Standards Institute, 11 West 42nd Street, New York, New York 10036. 

Two publications by Burklin (References, Section 1.1, Part B) are devoted to standards of importance to the chemical industry. Listed are about 50 organizations and 60 topics with which they are concerned. National Bureau of Standards Publication 329 contains about 25,000 titles of U.S. standards. The NBS-SIS service maintains a reference collection of 200,000 items accessible by letter or phone. Information about foreign standards is obtainable through the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). 

ANSI American National Standards Institute. Founded in 1918, ANSI is a private, non-profit organization that administers and coordinates the U S. voluntary standardization and conformity assessment system. Its mission is to enhance both the global competitiveness of U.S. business and the quality of U.S. life by promoting and facilitating voluntary consensus standards and conformity assessment systems, and safeguarding their integrity. See www.ansi.org. 

ASTM International, originally known as the American Society for Testing and Materials ANSI, the American National Standards Institute and ISO, the International Organization for Standardization, are organizations that set standards in a variety of areas. 

The supplier-user or vendor-vendee relationship, as it pertains to quality, is well described in the American National Standard s ANSI/ASQC Q90-1987 to Q94-1987. The standards are technically equivalent to the ISO 9000 to ISO 9004 series of the international Quality Management and Quality Assurance Standards. The recommended quality system specifies quality policy, organization, authority, personnel, management review, and so on. 

Guidance on the preparation of SDS s under the requirements of the GHS can be found in Annex 4. It has been developed by the GHS Sub-Committee after consideration of the main internationally-recognized standards which provided guidance in the preparation of an SDS, including the ILO Standard under the Recommendation 177 on Safety in the Use of Chemicals at Work, the International Standard 11014 of the International Standard Organization (ISO), the European Union Safety Data Sheet Directive 91/155/EEC and the American National Standard Institute (ANSI) standard Z 400.1. 

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