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ISO launches eNewsletter on conformity assessment

International Standards Organization launched a new electronic newsletter on "conformity assessment" – the name given to the processes used to demonstrate that a product or service, a management system or an organization meets specified requirements, such as those of an ISO International Standard.

Purchasers, users, customers and consumers, as well as regulators, can have more confidence in products, services, systems and organizations when they conform to ISO standards – but the conformity assessment processes and the people and organizations that carry them out must also be worthy of confidence.

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New ISO standard for fire safety design of built environments will help save lives and cut costs

23932:2009, Fire safety engineering – General principles, provides general principles for a performance-based methodology for engineers to assess the level of fire safety for new or existing built environments.

Fire safety is evaluated through an approach based on risk assessment and on knowledge of the behavior of fire and of people and the consequences of such behavior on human safety, property and the environment.

The standard provides an overview of how fire safety engineering analyses and assessments are conducted, with links to more specific standards, including those already published or under development.

The basic principles in this International Standard are covering any phenomena associated with fire (including fire growth, hot gases and movement of effluents, structural and compartmentation behavior) to reach any related fire-safety objectives including:

• Safety of life
• Conservation of property
• Continuity of operations

Protection of the environment

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