According to UN-Water, almost half the world’s workforce – 1.5 billion people – is employed in water-related sectors and nearly all jobs depend on water and those that ensure its safe delivery. Yet the…

With people living in rural areas where visiting a clinic is difficult, and travellers increasingly globetrotting to far-off places, International SOS delivers remote medical support and travel security…

“Doing one’s bit” for the environment has become a reflex for many consumers, who are attentive to the environmental impact of the products they buy. Environmental statements, symbols or graphics proliferate…

Africa has a tradition of using herbal medicine. For millennia, its people have healed the sick with herbal or animal-derived remedies, handed down through generations. Today, traditional (or ancestral)…

Organizations wishing to get the most out of ISO’s most popular quality management standard, ISO 9001, will benefit from a new technical specification just published.

The global building sector has never faced more challenges – from curbing energy use to creating high-performance buildings, while lowering our carbon dioxide emissions and ensuring energy security in…

Energy efficiency is the “first fuel” in the global energy system, note experts in the latest edition of ISOfocus.

ISO has just published a new standard to help companies that are developing innovative environmental technologies reach new markets. ISO 14034:2016, Environmental management – Environmental technology…

Many of us take toilets for granted, yet as many as one in three people are struggling because they lack access to one. This can lead to poor health, absenteeism from work and school, lack of privacy and…

Feeding tubes, catheters and IV drips are just some of the essential delivery devices used in medical settings that save lives every day. But even minor errors in their connectors can have devastating…