British Standards Institution (BSI) is the world's first national standardization agency.

A non-profit civil society organization recognized and supported by the British Government.

Founded in 1901 and headquartered in London.

Currently, *** has more than 20,000 donation members and more than 20,000 committee members.

In 1901, the British Engineering Standards Committee (ESC or BESC) was jointly initiated by the British Institution of Civil Engineers (IEC), the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IME), the Institution of Naval Architects (INA) and the Iron and Steel Institute (ISI).

The first meeting was held in London on April 26.

This is the world's first national standardization agency, and its birth marks a new stage of development for human standardization activities.

In 1902, the Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE) joined the committee, and the British government began to provide financial support.

In June 1902, the General Committee for Standardization and a series of special committees were established.

The task of the General Committee is to prepare local standardization committees in the Commonwealth countries and other countries.

Such local committees have been established in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and other countries.

The task of the special committee is to formulate technical specifications, such as standards for special-shaped steel materials for motors, rails, shipbuilding and railway metal materials.

In 1918, the General Committee for Standardization was renamed the British Engineering Standards Association (BE-SA).

In 1929 BESA was granted a Royal Charter.

The issuance of a Royal Charter is an ancient method used by the British government to give special recognition and grant special status to certain voluntary and public welfare organizations.

To this day, the Royal Charter remains the British Standards Institution's highest honor.

In 1931, a supplementary charter was promulgated and the association changed its current name (BSI).

The Royal Charter stipulates: The purpose of the British Standards Institution is to coordinate the relationship between producers and users, solve the contradiction between supply and demand, improve production technology and raw materials, achieve standardization and simplification, and avoid the waste of time and materials; develop and revise as necessary and possible

British standards and promote their implementation; register various signs in the name of the society and issue licenses; take various measures when necessary to protect the purposes and interests of the society.

The BSI organizational structure includes the general membership meeting, executive committee, council, standards committee and technical committee.

The Executive Committee is the highest authority of BS and is responsible for formulating BSI's policies, but it needs the final approval of donor members.

The Executive Committee is composed of representatives from government departments, private enterprises, state-owned enterprises, professional societies and labor organizations, with a chairman and 5 vice-chairmen.

It consists of six councils including Electrical Technology, Automation and Information Technology, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Chemistry and Health, Technical Equipment, and Comprehensive Technology, as well as several committees.

BSI has more than 1,200 employees and has business departments such as Standards Department, Testing Department, Quality Assurance Department, Marketing Department, and Public Affairs Department.

The Standards Department is the management and coordination agency for standardization work.

BSI formulates a standardization work plan every three years, selects and adjusts each year, and develops an annual implementation plan.

Corresponding to the six councils, the Standards Department consists of two Standards Offices, which are responsible for the secretariat work of the six councils.

The Council has a Standards Committee, which has a Technical Committee (TC). The Technical Committee can set up subcommittees (SC) and working groups (WG).

In 1998 *** there were more than 3,000 TCs and SCs.

H. Hempstead Inspection Institute is an inspection and testing center affiliated with the Testing Department and was established in 1959.

It has more than 10 laboratories including chemistry, physics, electrical engineering, mechanics, and optics.

Initially only responsible for the inspection of motorcycle safety helmets, with the scope of services expanding year by year, it has now become the largest independent inspection agency with the widest scope of operations in the UK.

30% of the testing tasks undertaken by the center come from BSI Quality Assurance Department, and the rest come from external units and foreign commissions.

The Quality Assurance Department is responsible for conformity assessment, certification audits and the issuance of BSI kite marks, safety marks and corporate registration marks.

The main tasks of the Marketing Department are to assist the government in researching European and world market conditions for British exporters, provide exporters with technical consulting services on foreign standards, technical regulations and certification systems, and undertake the publication and distribution of BS standards.

BSI established the world's first Technical Services for Exporters (THE) in 1966.

In March 1903, the United Kingdom formulated the world's first national standard - the British Standard Specification (BSS) 'Rolled Steel Section', which reduced the size of structural steel sections from 175 to 113 and the rail specifications from 75 to 5.

By 1914, British steel standard specifications were widely adopted by the British Admiralty, Lloyd's Register, and the Indian Railways. During the First World War from 1914 to 1918, standardization

The greatest contribution was the development of a number of standards for aircraft materials. Toward the end of the war, Winston Churchill pointed out at a meeting: "Such a profound standardization of aircraft materials illustrates the truth that they were not only used during the war years, but

And after the war is over, we should pay attention to it."