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What is the full form of ISO?

By Anushree Goswami Last updated : April 20, 2024

ISO is an abbreviation of the International Organization for Standardization. It is an international standard-setting organization that is independent, non-governmental, non-profitable, and global and which expands and brings out international standards. It offers and sets a standard for products and services. These standards of ISO are acknowledged globally and offer an assurance that the products and services are safe, trustworthy and of high-quality.

ISO is the world's leading developer of voluntary global standards. Its head office is situated in Geneva in Switzerland and its official languages are English, French, and Russian. It operates in 164 countries around the world and support and encourages global proprietary, industrial and commercial standards.

It was one of the first organizations, which approved general consultative standing with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

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Work of ISO

• ISO offers outstanding specifications for products, services, and systems to make sure that the products and services are safe, trustworthy, high-quality and efficient.
• The numbers of international standards published by ISO are more than 19500, which takes under every industry, technology, food safety, agriculture, and healthcare.

ISO Brief History

• The representatives of 25 countries congregated at the Institute of Civil Engineers in London and decided to set up an international organization to make easy and possible international harmonization and confederation of industrial standards in 1946.
• In February 1947, ISO was established and authoritatively started its operations.

Following is a listing of popular standards of international organization for Standardization,

• ISO 9000: It is used for the standardization of quality management.
• ISO 10012: It is used to measure the management system.
• ISO 14000: It is used for the standardization of environmental management.
• ISO 19011: It provides a guideline to the audit management system.
• ISO 2768-1: It is used to provide a standard for general tolerance.
• ISO 31000: It is a standard for risk management.
• ISO 50001: It is a standard for energy management.
• ISO 4217: It is used for the standardization of currency codes.

ISO Financing

The funding for financing ISO is done by the amalgamation of:

• The organizations which administer and control the particular projects or loan specialist professionals to contribute to the technical work.
• Subscriptions from each country which are in association with ISO. These subscriptions are in the division to each country's gross national product and trade figures.
• Trade of standards of product and services.