3. Certification considerations
The approach of standardization is very different, depending on whether or not the sector, and therefore the products from these sectors, are subject to certification against the sector's reference standard. This section deals more specifically with the different approaches to certification in different sectors.
3.1 Certification principles
Certification practices for operating safety requirements vary from one field to another. First of all, there is the problem of semantics. Each field has a very precise but non-standardized lexicon on the subject. The notion of certification encompasses different requirements and objectives in different fields.
The basic structure of the certification process is fairly common to all the fields we...
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Bibliography
Websites
French Standards Association (Afnor) http://www.afnor.org
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) http://www.iso.ch
International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) http://www.iec.ch
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