Normalising global commerce: containerisation, materiality, and transnational regulation (1956–68)

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 457-477
Author(s):  
Daniel R Quiroga-Villamarín
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Legal Scholarship ◽  
International Organization For Standardization ◽  
Sociotechnical Imaginaries ◽  
Global Commerce ◽  
Shipping Containers

Abstract Despite their importance in globalised trade, shipping containers have been neglected in legal scholarship. Our disciplinary fascination with written forms of legal activity has come to the detriment of the study of regulatory practices that operate beyond textual mediums. In this article, I argue that processes of containerisation created transnational patterns of material normalisation. By reconstructing the debates within the International Organization for Standardization, I suggest that container standardisation effectively normalised a particular vision of world ordering. Instead of seeing containers as insignificant metal boxes, I contend they are repositories of sociotechnical imaginaries of global governance.

SOLUÇÃO DE PROBLEMAS NA ASSOCIAÇÃO COMERCIAL E INDUSTRIAL DE ANÁPOLIS COM O USO DA NBR ISO: 9001

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 19-42
Author(s):  
Keliany Marçal Silva ◽  
Juliana Luíza Moreira Del Fiaco
Keyword(s):  
International Organization ◽  
Iso 9001 ◽  
International Organization For Standardization

A implantação das normas aplicadas pela ISO (International Organization for Standardization) pode ser benéfica ou não para as organizações, dependendo da forma como são aplicadas. Este artigo fruto de pesquisa analisou se a Associação Comercial e Industrial de Anápolis (ACIA) aplicou bem o Sistema de Gestão da Qualidade (SGQ) e assim teve como objetivo geral identificar possíveis prós e contras da implantação da ISO no trabalho cotidiano dos seus colaboradores internos, e por, objetivos específicos: relatar como os colaboradores da ACIA entendem e utilizam a ISO; caracterizar as melhorias no trabalho interno dos colaboradores pós implantação do SGQ e avaliar as melhorias que o SGQ provocou na instituição. Para atingir tais metas, realizou-se uma pesquisa descritiva, explicativa e bibliográfica, sendo necessário entrevistar os colaboradores por meio de aplicação de questionários para 22 sujeitos da pesquisa, que revelaram conforme os resultados apresentados a seguir, que estes não veem a participação necessária da gestão nos quesitos relacionados à NBR ISO:9001 que está implantada na empresa e precisa de manutenção constante, porém, acreditam que quando bem controlado, o sistema pode gerar economicidade, organização e padronização, sendo benéfico para o trabalho rotineiro.

International Ergonomics Standards—Making Professional Inputs

1978 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 425-425
Author(s):  
John V. Fechter
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Personal Safety ◽  
International Organization For Standardization

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has many different committees, each devoted to a particular standards making area. Three committees of special interest to members of the Human Factors Society are: TC73 - Consumer Questions TC94 - Personal Safety, and TC159 - Ergonomics.

Warning symbology

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Austin Adams ◽  
Theo Boersema ◽  
Meijer Mijksenaar
Keyword(s):  
Public Information ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
Assessment Methods ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Iso Standards ◽  
International Organization For Standardization ◽  
Single Part

Symbol signs ­– signs without words – are often used to communicate safety or public information messages. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) provides standards ISO 3864-1 and ISO 3864-3 giving design principles for both graphical symbols and completed signs in the safety arena. The present study shows that for difficult signage circumstances a two-part sign, showing the desired and undesired circumstances with a tick and a cross, can be much more effective than the normal single-part sign provided for by these ISO standards. The present study also suggests that ISO’s sign assessment methods could be efficiently combined and simplified.

scholarly journals Miejsce oceny cyklu życia w systemie zarządzania środowiskowego

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 65-77
Author(s):  
Izabela Samson-Bręk ◽  
Aleksandra Filip
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Management System ◽  
Environmental Management System ◽  
International Organization ◽  
International Organization For Standardization ◽  
Iso 14000 ◽  
Environmental Life Cycle Assessment

This publication was presented characteristics of the environmental life cycle assessment LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) as one of the methods included in the environmental management system (EMAS). Discusses also the various stages of analysis and guidance on the principles of its preparation regulated by the ISO 14000 standards (International Organization for Standardization), as well as paid attention to the key elements which determine the outcome of the assessments.

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