PROMOTING THE SAFE TRANSPORT OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL: Activities of the ISO

摘要

Standards help to make life simpler and to increase the reliability and effectiveness of goods and services. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) plays a key role in developing standards at the international level, including those that apply to the packaging and transport of radioactive material. Such standards can have positive effects, not only on engineers and manufacturers, but also on society as a whole. ISO standards are useful to industrial and business organizations of all kinds, to governments and other regulatory bodies, to trade officials, to conformity-assessment professionals, to suppliers and customers of products and services both in the public and private sectors, and, ultimately, to consumers and end-users in general. The paper outlines the role ISO is playing in this field and summarizes the status of standards that apply to the packaging and transport of radioactive material.