Publically Available Standard

In addition to the publicly available standards provided by professional bodies, many of the larger companies have their own internal standards. Generally, these internal standards are based on public standards but have additional requirements—often to do with specific aspects of their own processes or operations. For example, if a company manufactures a unique and proprietary chemical, management may need to create standards to do with the safe handling of that chemical, since little information is likely to be available in the public domain. 

Public andprivate standards also may be distinguished. PubHc standards iaclude those produced by government bodies and those pubHshed by other organizations but promoted for general use, eg, the ASTM standards. Private standards are issued by a private company for its own interests and generally are not available to parties other than its vendors, customers, and subcontractors. 

Standards and guidelines should be established in written form for all dmg regulatory functions. These tools should then be used to guide regulation practice, as well as being made publicly available in order to ensure the transparency of the dmg regulatory process. 

The advantages to using MSDSs for chemical inventories are that MSDSs are publicly available and required by law. There is no extra cost or labour needed to supply them. The limitations to using MSDSs as a source of inventory data are that currently, in the United States, a standardized reporting format is not mandatory. MSDSs are not verified or audited and MSDS information can be incomplete and/or inaccurate. In addition, OSHA s definition of hazard does not include the broader scope of hazard used in green chemistry. Therefore, chemicals that are potential hazards from the green chemistry perspective but are not defined by OSHA as hazards, are not required to be identified on a MSDS. 

Currently, there is no mechanism to effectively share reactive chemical test data throughout industry. The feasibility of a publicly available test database has not yet been studied by industry or government. Reactive chemical experts at one company visited by CSB expressed an interest in working with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop such a database. 

In addition, significant information on control systems is publicly available— including design and maintenance documents, technical standards for the interconnection of control systems and RTUs, and standards for communication among control devices—all of which could assist hackers in understanding the systems and how to attack them. Moreover, there are numerous former employees, vendors, support contractors, and other end users of the same equipment worldwide with inside knowledge of the operation of control systems. 

Weight- and number-average molecular weights were recently redetermined for SRM 705. No significant difference could be found between the recent and earlier measurements. The same holds true for the viscosity numbers. The results of this more recent work are given in a Special Publication available from the National Bureau of Standards (5). 

A process that was no more than a laboratory phenomenon when the Office of Saline Water was authorized in 1952 has been rapidly developed to the point where it is now one of the most economical processes for the conversion of brackish water to fresh. This process, electrodialysis, was selected for the third demonstration plant. It will be located at Webster, S. D. The Bureau of Reclamation Laboratories in Denver, Colo., prepared the specifications for this plant which will be designed to produce 250,000 gallons of fresh water per day. Operating on water containing between 1500 and 1800 parts of salt per million parts of water, this plant will remove more than 1 ton of salt daily to produce product water with less than 500 parts of salt per million parts of water which is required to meet U. S. Public Health Standards for good drinking water. Construction specifications for this plant were available August 1, and sealed bids will be opened on October 4, 1960. 

British Standards Institute (BSI). Publicly available specification Determination of priority pollutants in surface water using passive sampling (PAS-61), May 2006. 

Sherman, D., Woicik, J., Zhu, W., Apweiler, R. (2004). Common interchange standards for proteomics data Public availability of tools and schema. Proteomics 4, 490-491. 

The CDC maintains a publicly available Web site that is the gold standard for accurate, up-to-date information available via the Internet. The site address is http // www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/agentlist.asp. 

R. E. MiCHAEUs Report on Available Standard Samples, Reference Samples, and High-Purity Materials for Spectrochemical Analysis, ASTM Special Technical Publication No. 58-E, pp. 125-147, ASTM, Philadelphia, 1963. 

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