ISO International Standards help businesses of any size and sector reduce costs, increase productivity, and access new markets. For small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), standards can help to:
- Build customer confidence that your products are safe and reliable
- Meet regulation requirements, at a lower cost
- Reduce costs across all aspects of your business
- Gain market access across the world
- Open up world trade – ISO – along with IEC and ITU – have a strategic partnership with WTO. The WTO’s Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade recognizes the contribution international standards can make towards improving the efficiency of production and international trade, and their key role in the harmonization of regulations
- Stimulate solutions to national and international issues such as disaster mitigation and recovery, efficient energy resources, and international trade
- Save money, by providing much of the technical detail and safety requirements needed for effective policy
Provide solutions to policy issues that represent a wide range of views and expertise and have the buy-in of many stakeholder groups In addition, it helps to ensure that products and services perform as expected and improve:
- Quality and reliability
- Consistency in the delivery of services
- Choice and fair competition
- Transparency in production information
- Suitability of products for vulnerable populations
- Credibility of standards to support consumer protection