Publications
Action plan for gender responsive standards and gender balance in standards development
Globally, there is a growing recognition that standards may be experienced differently by women and men. This prompted the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe to author a Declaration for Gender...
Published on 2019/09/12
Ensuring Canada's infrastructure is climate-resilient
Interim Report 2016-2019
In the 2016 federal budget, SCC received $11.7 million over five years to support the Government of Canada’s climate change agenda. Through the creation of the Standards to Support Resilience in Infrastructure Program...
Published on 2019/09/05
The Standards Council of Canada is pleased to publish our 2018–19 Annual Report.
Published on 2019/08/21
The Standards Council of Canada (SCC) has released a faster and cost-competitive path to standardization that helps support cutting-edge innovators. The new National Technical Specifications (TS) tool was developed with the speed of innovation in mind and supports Canada’s Intellectual Property...
Published on 2019/08/02
The purpose of this research was to determine the impact of standardization on unintentional deaths. While accidents are a complex problem with many contributing factors, the findings indicate that standardization can play an important role in reducing their devastating impact. When effectively...
Published on 2019/05/09
SCC’s Corporate Plan Summary provides an overview of the organization’s operational direction.
Published on 2019/05/06
This report provides the basis for the development of a set of commonly acceptable, relatively straightforward wind risk reduction measures that can be incorporated into new single-family home construction and significant renovations to reduce risk to life, health and property. Measures presented...
Published on 2019/04/25