It is the only book on fire and explosion investigation that is developed through
a consensus standards development process approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and is universally considered the most authoritative work on the subject.
Not exact matches
A summary of the RCP's submission to the Future Forum workstream on information: · The
development of evidence and
consensus - based national
standards for electronic records is essential.
This group served as the national coordinator of the
standards -
development process as well as an impartial organization to approve national
consensus standards and halt user confusion on acceptability.
Domestically, ANSI provides a forum where the private and public sectors can cooperatively work together toward the
development of voluntary national
consensus standards.
--(A) To support the
development of
consensus standards that may provide the basis for national energy efficiency building codes, minimize duplication of effort, encourage progress through
consensus, and facilitate the
development of greater building efficiency, the Secretary shall provide assistance to recognized developers of national energy codes and
standards to develop, and where the relevant code has been adopted as the national code, disseminate
consensus based energy efficiency building codes as provided in this paragraph.
He called the Committee's attention to three important
developments in the past decade: the emerging
consensus that evidenced - based medicine should direct policy; the emerging
consensus that evidence - based medicine should focus on health outcomes; and the Data Quality Act, which requires that data, used as the basis for recommendations, should be replicable, and should meet certain quality
standards.
That's a daunting challenge for any test maker, but it's further complicated by widespread fears of soaring failure rates and their political consequences, as well as by Arne Duncan's stipulation (in the federal grants that underwrite the assessment -
development process) that the states belonging to each consortium must reach
consensus on those passing scores (in government jargon, «common achievement
standards»).
It takes a great deal of time and professional
development to form the widespread understanding of performance
standards necessary to achieve
consensus about «how good is good enough.»
We anticipate a final version of the community school implementation
standards within the next several months, followed by a similar discussion and
consensus - building process around systems infrastructures (e.g. district, county, state, federal level) to support
development, implementation and sustainability of at - scale community school strategies.
Subtitle D: Industrial Energy Efficiency Programs -(Sec. 241) Requires the Secretary to continue to support the
development of the American National
Standards Institute (ANSI) voluntary industrial plant energy efficiency certification program, pending International
Standards Organization (ISO)
consensus standard 50001, and other related ANSI / ISO
standards.
--(A) To support the
development of
consensus standards that may provide the basis for national energy efficiency building codes, minimize duplication of effort, encourage progress through
consensus, and facilitate the
development of greater building efficiency, the Secretary shall provide assistance to recognized developers of national energy codes and
standards to develop, and where the relevant code has been adopted as the national code, disseminate
consensus based energy efficiency building codes as provided in this paragraph.
Those three foundation principles are: (1) operate independently from government; (2) serve the public interest (not government interest); and, (3)
standards development procedures shall be based upon
consensus — the achieving of
consensus among all interested parties («
consensus» as defined by the CAN - P - 1:2012 text, pp. 21 - 22).
Response: We make an exception to the minimum necessary disclosure provision of this rule for the required and situational data elements of the
standard transactions adopted in the Transactions Rule, because those elements were agreed to through the ANSI - accredited
consensus development process.