Safety and Standards -- Closely Interlinked [Standards News]

Examines the relationship between safety and standards development. Standards may be divided into two distinct categories, safety and performance. In the first instance, safety standards provide rules, recommendations, and mitigation techniques to eliminate or minimize risks associated with the identified hazards. Legal requirements are normally issued in the form of standards. In the second circumstance, performance standards define the performance of a product or the practices under a certain set of conditions for evaluation and application between products of various suppliers.