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What’s new about IEC 60079-15 on explosive atmospheres?

One of the IEC’s most popular explosive atmospheres standards has just undergone a full technical revision. This blog post explains what’s new about the standard.

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Why city resilience is the next big business continuity standard

Resilience has become a much more pressing concern in recent years, hence a new British Standard on city resilience being launched this month. This blog post examines why this standard has become the next important step in business continuity.

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Project management is definitely not for dummies

BSI’s first true project management standards were published in 2000, since when they’ve been updated regularly. This blog post focuses on the latest revisions to BS 6079 in what is a notoriously challenging area of management.

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Should Organizational Resilience be seen as a defensive or progressive strategy?

With a growing understanding of Organization Resilience amongst the business community, we look into whether it should be seen as a defensive or progressive approach for future planning.

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Preliminary Guidelines on Phthalates in Medical Devices

In mid-March of this year, the European Commission issued a public consultation on phthalates in medical devices. If your company markets or intends to market in Europe a medical device containing phthalates, you may already be aware of this consultation; if not, you need to be aware of it.

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Managing biorisk

ISO 35001, which is under development, focuses on management of biorisks, namely the management of risks that organizations confront when handling biological agents and toxins.

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Aligning international and European standards on packaging for terminally-sterilized medical devices

The EN 868 series of European standards on packaging for terminally-sterilized medical devices has been revised. One of the intentions of the revisions of these standards was to increase the link with EN ISO 11607-1. In particular removing duplication and overlap and aligning with EN ISO 11607 in regards to general principles; terms and definitions; and information on precision and bias, repeatability and reproducibility for test methods.

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Risk management in medical laboratories

The credibility of medical laboratories is paramount to the health and safety of the patients relying on the testing services provided by these labs. ISO 22367 (in development) deals with the reduction of error in medical laboratories through risk management and continual improvement.

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International conference focuses on regulations and standards for medical technology

AAMI, the US FDA and BSI are hosting an international conference on medical devices standards and regulation. The conference is a unique opportunity to get the latest information on important regulatory developments. It links these developments to the international standards that are being prepared to support regulatory requirements.

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Standards and safer syringes

In an attempt to reduce the risks of injury and disease transmission, the WHO launched in 2015 a new policy on injection safety, calling on the international community to switch to safety-engineered syringes, whenever appropriate, by 2020. Standards are continuing to play a key role in improving injection safety as this deadline approaches.

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Updating the standards on microbiological methods for sterilization

The portfolio of standards for validation and routine control of sterilization are key horizontal standards. It is important that the content of these standards are regularly reviewed and kept current. Within this portfolio, the series of standards on microbiological methods are at various stages of being updated.

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European Commission website revamped and additional guidance added

The European Commission’s website provides background to the MDR and IVDR as well as guidance on the Directives for medical devices. The site has recently been restructured and further guidance and information added.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI): The Regulatory Challenges That Lie Ahead

Whilst AI technologies offer substantial potential benefits to the healthcare sector, their governance and regulation have been identified as significant challenges. Studies have been initiated to consider how to address these, and BSI and AAMI have been exploring the role of standards to support the deployment of novel technologies across this highly regulated sector.

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Let there be daylight

How daylight works in buildings is hugely important to their functionality and occupants. That’s why a new European standard on daylight will be so valuable to designers, architects and developers.

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Block chain and digital innovation in healthcare

Block chain has been successful in attracting investment. But, can the success of this digital technology be reproduced in the healthcare sector? Excitement around new technologies like block chain may be excellent for stimulating investment. But, is excitement equally conducive to healthcare's primary aim: patient benefit?

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Standards on packaging for terminally-sterilized medical devices updated

New editions of the ISO 11607 series of standards on packaging for terminally-sterilized medical devices have been completed. The new editions of these standards include changes to incorporate the increased emphasis on the sterile barrier system for sterile medical devices that have been included in the European Medical Devices Regulation.

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Catch up on the significant revisions made to one of Europe’s key EMC standards

Electrotechnical standards must be continually reviewed to check they’re keeping up with technology. This blog post outlines how Europe’s EMC standard on protecting low voltage public networks has recently changed.

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Safety is the first priority with amended electrical test standard

User feedback has resulted in important amendments to the international standard on electrical equipment testing. This blog post sets out what’s changed and how it’s come about.

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An introduction to digital maturity

Digital maturity is needed in healthcare as the sector faces the challenge of balancing digital technology's potential for impact and profit against its various risks.

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Canada ends transition period to the MDSAP

Health Canada provided an update on progress with the transition at the MDSAP Forum Stakeholder Day held on 5 December 2018.

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What you need to know about the revised Legionella Risk Assessment Standard

The first British Standard on assessing the risk of Legionella was published in 2010. Now a significant revision to the standard has been released. This blog post explains why and outlines what’s changed.

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Therapeutic nanoparticles

Nanoparticles can be designed to produce a therapeutic effect without direct application of drugs. Most of these effects are brought about by having the particle designed to create locally, free radicals or energetic electrons to kill specific cell types. There is a further possible way to treat diseased tissue by destroying it with local heat produced by nanoparticles that are designed to get warm in radiofrequency fields or infra-red light.

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QMS and the IVDR: Roles and responsibilities

Learn about persons responsible for regulatory compliance, economic operators and management responsibilities under the IVDR with this excerpt of the BSI medical devices white paper Developing and maintaining a quality management system for IVDs.

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