International

Electrotechnical

Commission

Frans Vreeswijk

IEC General

Secretary & CEO

Working Session

Standards for DRR

17 March 2015

Sendai, Japan

International Standards & conformity assessment

• For developing and developed countries

• Risk assessment, built-in resilience & safety = better outcomes

• Universally agreed best-practice

IEC and ISO:

• Over 160 countries

• Participation from

industry, academia,

research, development,

testing laboratories,

citizen groups, etc.

- Universally relevant &

applicable

IEC and ISO International

Standards can be trusted.

- Combined know-how and

consensus of thousands

of experts

- Global consensus of over

160 countries

International Standards:

• Widely agreed

guidelines,

methodologies &

metrics

• Reduce cost

• Bigger choice

• Better interoperability

Verification is a must

Governments:

• Send more experts

• Share needs

• Help expand body of

expertise

• Make International

Standards more easy to

adopt nationally

• Provides essential

requirements for

industry

• Enables greater

transparency in public

procurement

• Reassures investors

Corning glass

Power outages affect:

• Healthcare

• Clean water supply

• Food safety

• Sanitation

Long-term economic

impact and development

losses.

57 foundational risk assessment Standards:

• Built-in safety mechanisms

• Avoid disasters from failure of electrical or electronic systems

• Foundational forISO 31000

IEC International

Standards :

• Increase reliability of

alarm and emergency

systems

• Verify their

conformity

For the public and private sector:

• Preparation for and recovery from major electricity outages

• How to build microgrids

• Continuity plans and systems

Free download:

www.iec.ch/whitepaper/microgrids/

ISO 22301 and ISO 22313 Business continuity management systems Standards:

• Reduce likelihood of occurrence of incidents

• Provide guidance for disaster

preparation

response

recovery

ISO 31000 applies to:

• Public, private or community enterprises, associations, groups or individuals

• Wide range of activities, processes, products, services, operations and decisions

New ISO Standards work:

• Management of disruption related risk

• Organizational resilience principles and guidelines

• Emergency management public warning and colour-coded alert

• Audible emergency evacuation signals

New ISO standards work:

• Crisis management of water utilities

• Intelligent transport systems communication networks for disaster relief and emergency communications

• Connection of mobile equipment for emergency intervention on nuclear installations

IEC: info@iec.ch ISO:central@iso.org