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Access Key standards
"BSI, in its role as the UK’s National Standards Body, is working with Government to provide expert, best practice information. As a result, we’ve made accessible relevant standards in the areas of hygiene, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), ventilators, risk management, business continuity and more, to support efforts in tackling COVID-19."
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BSI's COVID-19 resources and updates can be found here:
https://www.bsigroup.com/en-GB/topics/novel-coronavirus-covid-19/
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The Standardization Administration of China (SAC) has translated a range of Chinese PPE standards into English, to support the COVID-19 response.
GB2626-2019English_forSACRev1.pdf GB2626-2019RespiratoryprotectionNon-poweredair-purifyingparticlerespirator.pdf GB14866-2006Thespecificationsforpersonaleye-protectors.pdf GB19082-2009TechnicalRequirementsforSingle-useProtectiveClothingforMedicalUse.pdf GB19083-2010Technicalrequirementsforprotectivefacemaskformedicaluse.pdf GB24788-2009Limitfortheremovablesurfacepowderandwater-extractableproteinofmedicalgloves.pdf GBT18664-2002Selectionuseandmaintenanceofrespiratoryprotectiveequipment.pdf GBT24787-2009Single-usenon-sterilerubbersurgicalgloves.pdf GBT32610-2016Technicalspecificationofdailyprotectivemask.pdf ListofChinesePandemicPreventionProductStandards2002-04-03.docx YY0469-2011SurgicalMask.pdf
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Practical steps to support safe working, and prevent and mitigate COVID-19 outbreaks in your organization
A new version of the ‘Safe Working During the COVID-19 Pandemic Guidelines’ is now available.
Version 2 of the Guidelines offers a comprehensive, practical approach, applicable to all organizations, large and small.
The Guidelines provide recommendations, based on user experience and expert input, for safe working during the pandemic. They have been enhanced and extended, based on the best and latest information, to help prevent a second wave.
Major new clauses added are:
- Working from home
- Managing suspected or confirmed cases of COVID-19
- Multiple or mobile workplaces
- Safe use of toilets
- Reporting to external parties
- Inclusivity and accessibility
- Psychological health and well-being.
The information and recommendations within the Guidelines can be used by any organization managing the risks related to COVID-19, regardless of size, type or location.
Version 2 is now available to download: https://www.bsigroup.com/en-GB/topics/novel-coronavirus-covid-19/covid-19-guidelines/Form/
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CSN Membership NSB COVID-19 responses:
International and Regional Standards organization responses to COVID-19:
- BEI (British Expertise International) https://www.britishexpertise.org/covid-19/
- CEN and CENELEC: https://www.cencenelec.eu/News/Press_Releases/Pages/PR-2020-003.aspx and CEN CENELEC analysis from CEN TCs (mainly 85, 79,162,205) looking at the differences / similarities between the Chinese standards that have been translated into English and the relevant ENs https://www.cencenelec.eu/Documents/ComparativeAnalyses_Q4.1.pdf
- COPANT: https://copant.org/phocadownload/cpnt_pub_2020/eng/2020-04-01 - COVID-19 PANDEMIC RESPONSE FROM NSBs.pdf
- IEC: https://www.iec.ch/covid-19/
- ISO: https://www.iso.org/covid-19.html
CSN NSB members have been updating their websites to assist with COVID-19 mitigation: NSB responses are outlined in the table below, please let us know if you have additional information that might be useful to share via the CSN portal.
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COVID-19 Info
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Antigua and Barbuda
Signposted to WHO website
Canada
https://www.scc.ca/en/news-events/news/2020/novel-coronavirus-update-covid-19
Bespoke SCC info
Ghana
https://www.gsa.gov.gh/2020/03/covid-19-lockdown-and-beyond/
https://www.gsa.gov.gh/2020/03/world-health-organization-7/
https://www.gsa.gov.gh/2020/03/world-health-organization-6/
https://www.gsa.gov.gh/2020/03/modes-of-transmission-of-virus-causing-covid-19/
Several pages of info with references taken from WHO (information positioned towards the bottom of home page)
Malta
Bespoke MCCAA info specific to hand sanitisers
New Zealand
Bespoke NZSO content with references to relevant ISO standards
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
http://www.svgbs.gov.vc/ - http://health.gov.vc/health/index.php/c
Signposted to government website
South Africa
Bespoke business continuity info
Sri Lanka
Bespoke SLSI info about postponement of training programmes owing to outbreak
Trinidad and Tobago
https://gottbs.com/blog/news/#.XoRcuKhKg2x
Info from TTBS under News and Events
Uganda
Bespoke COVID-19 video from UNBS and other info under News & Highlights and Twitter feed on home page
UK
https://www.bsigroup.com/en-GB/
Bespoke info under Latest and trending. Open access to relevant standards on 1. The production of ventilators,, 2. personal protective equipment and 3. risk management and business continuity.
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Information on forthcoming BSI Webinars can be found here: https://www.bsigroup.com/en-GB/our-services/events/webinars/
CEN published a new Technical Specification on community face coverings (2022-11-22)
in COVID-19: QI Resources
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Info from CEN/CENELEC :https://www.cencenelec.eu/news-and-events/news/2022/eninthespotlight/2022-11-22-cen-published-a-new-technical-specification-on-community-face-coverings/
"The Covid-19 pandemic made the need for shared rules on community face coverings particularly urgent. In response, CEN, the European Committee for Standardization, developed in record time an initial deliverable that could provide the necessary guidelines: CEN Workshop Agreement 17553:2020 ‘Community face coverings - Guide to minimum requirements, methods of testing and use’. Although a Workshop Agreement (also known as CWA) does not count as an official standard, as it involves no obligation at the national level, thanks to its simplified format it can be produced and disseminated very quickly, and therefore it can help fill urgent needs.
Based on this work, at the end of 2020, CEN/TC 248 ‘Textiles and Textile products’ started work on the transformation of the CWA into a more formal, higher consensus deliverable, a European Technical Specification (TS). This work was finally completed in 2022, with the publication, on 2 November, of CEN/TS 17553:2022 ‘Textiles and textile products - Community face coverings - Minimum requirements, methods of testing and use’."