News articles published by the Standards Council of Canada are listed below.
News
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2022/01/20
Shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for a domestic supply of filtering respirators in Canada that meet required performance and quality requirements to protect Canadians. In response to this need,... -
2021/12/21
The Standards Council of Canada (SCC) applauds the cooperation arrangement between the Pacific Area Standards Congress (PASC) and the Pan American Standards Commission (COPANT). As an active member of both PASC and COPANT, SCC welcomes this milestone as a new opportunity... -
2021/12/20
Food safety depends on how well produce can be tracked from farm to table. Distributed ledger technologies like blockchain are well suited to this task. They provide an immutable and easily available record that can be used to follow items through supply chains. The CIO... -
2021/12/09
As witnessed in recent weeks, rising seas, swollen atmospheric rivers and post-tropical storms are a threat to community infrastructure, housing and the safety of those living along Canada’s east and west coasts. In response, new guidance from the Intact Centre on Climate... -
2021/12/08
Organizations aiming to become more diverse and inclusive can now access new guidance to help them. The Standards Council of Canada (SCC), working with the Ted Rogers School of Management’s Diversity Institute and with support from Innovation, Science and Economic Development... -
2021/12/01
The Standards Council of Canada (SCC) and the Instituto Nacional de Calidad de Peru (INACAL), the national standards body of Peru, have renewed their cooperation arrangement to advance international standards work between Canada and Peru. SCC and INACAL first entered into... -
2021/11/30
Ricardo Certification Ltd. is the first organization to be accredited to ISO/IEC 17020:2012 under SCC’s new Independent Safety Assessor for Railway Systems Accreditation Program. This global rail consulting agency provides technical expertise, assurance and specialist... -
2021/11/23
The merging of digital technologies with biological systems is poised to create social and mass market changes, in the same way that the rise of digital computing in 1985 altered society at large. Biodigital convergence is a new field of research exploring the interaction...