BSI British Standards Institution
BSI (British Standards Institution) is the United Kingdom's national standards body, incorporated by Royal Charter, which develops British and international standards and represents the UK in global standards organizations such as ISO and IEC. Alongside its standards work, BSI provides accredited certification, training, product testing, and assessment services for businesses and personnel.www.bsigroup.com
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Sep 23, 2026
David LaceyGUEST
We all had global supply chains, and we all wanted a standard with a certification capability.
David LaceyGUEST
So the DTI introduced an expert from BSI who guided us through the fast track process and advised us on lessons from earlier standards, such as ISO 9001.
David LaceyGUEST
And so in the earliest moment in 1993, BSI published our standard as a so-called published document.
David LaceyGUEST
It was a code of practice standard, not a conformance standard, and it's designed to be flexible in interpretation.
David LaceyGUEST
And this document was then fast-tracked into BS 7799, and then it became ISO 27001 and 2.
David LaceyGUEST
So we avoided technical detail because standards that mention specific technologies not only date quickly, but they also prevent a level playing field.
David LaceyGUEST
The US standards body, NIST, saw the first version of our work and actually wanted to publish it as a NIST document.
David LaceyGUEST
But BSI objected on copyright grounds.
Nick ReedGUEST
Something I've been working on for many years is the idea that there should be a standardized way to collect data from automated vehicles.
Nick ReedGUEST
And this was work done for BSI, the British Standards Institution, who recognized a gap in safety assurance for automated vehicles.
Nick ReedGUEST
And looking at the industry of how we assess human drivers, how we assess mobile robots...
Nick ReedGUEST
A way that those worlds came together was around this idea of having a standardized data format to understand what an automated vehicle was seeing, what predictions it's making about the world around it, and what it does in response.
Diego BermudezGUEST
We need more regulation and standards here as well.
Diego BermudezGUEST
There are good standards, like the British Standard Institute is trying to help with those.
Diego BermudezGUEST
They have already standards for refurbished and remanufactured devices that are great, but there need to be this cross-sectoral standards that actually try to maintain value across sectors.
FelixHOST
And when we look at these figures who can make changes, whether that's tech decision makers or general public who are interested in this as an issue,
Jeff MacArthurHOST
toys.I've talked about AI-enabled toys on The Other Mac leading up to Christmas holidays last year, and there are some very real concerns that they raise relative to privacy, safety, and childhood development.
Jeff MacArthurHOST
Well, a recent survey by the British Standards Institution shared that now half of kids under 16 years old in the UK have been given at least one AI-powered toy or learning device, and that includes robots and smart tablets, as well as more conventional kids' toys with AI features.
Jeff MacArthurHOST
But what's more surprising is that 47% of the parents surveyed believe kids would be better off growing up without access to AI, and fully 75% of parents worry about AI toys connected to the internet exposing their child to unwanted content or data risks.
Jeff MacArthurHOST
So the question I can't help but ask from those three data points is, why the heck are you giving your kids AI toys then? I, I really feel there's a crisis in parenting that goes hand in hand with our struggles to regulate social media and AI, and at least part of that is that many parents are just as addicted to those things as their kids are.
Jeff MacArthurHOST
And to be clear, we also can't just wait for governments to take action on this.
Jeff MacArthurHOST
These are our kids, and we need to take the necessary steps to protect them now.
Jeff MacArthurHOST
So check out the other results on the British Standards Institution's website at bsigroup.com, and let us know on social media how you feel about this, whether you agree with me or not.
Amber MacHOST
Let's wrap things up with some frustrations a lot of us probably share, five digital user experiences that need to stop.
Sam ReeveGUEST
And you need to know all of that really well.
Sam ReeveGUEST
But you also, and this is maybe where the work on with the British Standards Institute and 8001 and the guiding principles of the circular economy is relevant possibly because that's all around the principles of the circular economy.
Sam ReeveGUEST
And it's this document which is very much about educating people individuals and then organizations on what this means and the the whole range of engagement that you can have of it from kind of quite light touch but beneficial engagement of understanding the concepts and what this really means because you you do need to understand this because otherwise you're going to go into certain meetings in your internal organization where you are then talking to the finance director or even the ceo if it's you know And you need to sell this.
Sam ReeveGUEST
And so you need to understand, you know, the kind of the implications of what journey you're starting.
Nick MarshallHOST
Yeah
Matt WaldramGUEST
... um, that are produced by British Standards Institution, many of which are adopted from international standards.
Matt WaldramGUEST
They cover all aspects of, um, electrical systems and the earthing world in which we work, and height safety too.
Nick MarshallHOST
Yeah.
Neil DaviesGUEST
So raising awareness of the industry, inspiring others to be more professional and take the industry forward.
Neil DaviesGUEST
As part of my role with the Arp Association, I sit on the panel for British Standards Institute.
Neil DaviesGUEST
So we input into British Standard 3998 BFPS 5837.
Neil DaviesGUEST
So tree works and trees in development.
CornHOST
At the top, you've got the formal international bodies, ISO, IEC, ITU, then regional bodies like CEN in Europe, ASTM in the US, which started as a materials testing society and now publishes standards across everything from steel to toys.
CornHOST
Then national bodies, ANSI, BSI, DIN-N, then government and military standards, which is its own universe.
CornHOST
Then industry consortia, ITEE, IETF, W3C, groups that form because the formal bodies are too slow or too generic.
CornHOST
And then the proprietary layer, companies whose internal specs become de facto standards because everyone has to interoperate with them.
Laura SangerGUEST
But like I said, you know, Joseph Goebbels, he wanted to change the standard tuning of A to 440 hertz.
Laura SangerGUEST
So what he did is Radio Berlin reached out to the British Standard Institute and asked if they would host a conference in London to change the standard tuning of A.
Laura SangerGUEST
And as you can imagine, you know, this conference was a setup in which the powers that be controlled the outcome.
Laura SangerGUEST
So first of all, they didn't invite any of the French musicians because they were largely opposed to 440 hertz.
Alexi SommerHOST
So we did a session with Joe Barnard from Arama about design approaches to circularity, as well as Nick Gant from Community 21 in Brighton about their design approaches.
Alexi SommerHOST
We did a session with Sarah Walton from British Standards about the circularity framework BS 8001.
Alexi SommerHOST
We did a session with Chris Lefteri about materials and material impact and the choices we can make.
Alexi SommerHOST
We invited Circular and Francesca Frank to talk to us about European policy and regulation and what's happening over the channel and how that's influencing businesses.
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