BS 9990:2015 Non automatic fire-fighting systems in buildings. Code of practice

BS 9990:2015 gives recommendations for non-automatic fire-fighting systems in buildings. It covers good practice in matters affecting the design, installation, testing and maintenance of such systems including wet and dry fire-fighting mains.

BS 16000 Security management - Strategic and operational guidelines

While there are many standards that cover specific security topics, such as alarms, CCTV and screening, BS 16000 provides a much needed generic, security management framework. BS 16000 provides the vocabulary and basic principles of security management, and demonstrates how security can be embedded in an organization, and discusses security solutions - including physical, technical, information, procedural and personnel solutions.

The new standard includes guidance on:
· Developing a security framework
· Risk assessment
· Understanding your organization's context
· Implementing and monitoring the security programme

Even if you have already implemented security solutions in your organization, BS 16000 can help you monitor and review your security management and identify ways to improve it. BS 16000 complements existing management standards including ISO 27001, ISO 14001, ISO 22301, ISO 22313, ISO 31000 and ISO 9001. As a generic, high-level guidance standard, it will be invaluable to anyone responsible for aspects of security in any organization – large or small, public or private. BS 16000 will help to support your organization’s viability, productivity, reputation, resilience and sustainability. .

BS 7543:2015 Guide to durability of buildings and building elements, products and components.

This British Standard gives guidance on durability, design life and predicted service life of buildings, constructed assets and their parts. It is applicable to both new and existing buildings. It is also essential to the current Government policy to reduce carbon emissions by 80%, by 2050.
BS 7543:2015 is a fundamental tool to assist with decision making in terms of cost and carbon impacts of investment in the built environment.

Specification for unfired fusion welded pressure vessels

PD 5500:2015 is the latest specification for unfired fusion welded pressure vessels. It applies to vessels manufactured from carbon, aluminium, copper, nickel, titanium and ferritic alloy and austenitic steels. PD 5500 applies to equipment designed to BS 5500 or PD 5500, in use outside of the EU or manufactured under the Pressure Equipment Directive. The specification is updated every three years.

With more than a million organizations certified to ISO 9001, it is the most widely recognized standard in the world. It sets out requirements for quality management systems, and is suitable for all types of organizations.
ISO 9001 has been revised to reflect the many changes in the way we now do business – new technology, greater access to information, higher customer expectations, globalization and increasing importance of service industries.
ISO 9001 has lost none of the rigour of the earlier versions, but cuts bureaucracy by being less prescriptive and focusing more on the context of each organization. It guides organizations to build a management system suited to individual needs without imposing irrelevant paperwork or requirements which add no value.