Joint standards development committee opportunities – can you help?

The opportunities cover:

• Prams and strollers
• Medical and surgical instruments
• Information and documentation, information technology - Learning, education, training and research
• Bitumen and related products (for roadmaking)
• Gas cylinders
• Power transformers
• Assistive technology
• Dishwashers, clothes washers and dryers

If you are interested in any of these opportunities learn more and complete an expression of interest via the dedicated section of our website. In your expression of interest please specify the committee you are interested in joining:

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CS-020 Prams and Strollers

What’s involved? To prepare standards for the safety requirements and test methods for pushchairs and prams, intended for the transportation of one or more children. Excludes toys, pushchairs intended for sport use and pushchairs and prams-propelled by a motor.

The committee will be looking at modification by amendment to AS/NZS 2088:2022 Amd 2 Prams and strollers - Safety requirements.

HE-023 Processing of Medical and Surgical Instruments

What’s involved? Standardisation of processes and equipment for sterilization of health care products that specify: 

• requirements for processing of medical devices.
• minimum practices necessary for the safe and effective reprocessing storage and handling of reusable medical devices for health care facilities.
• requirements for packaging of medical devices for sterilization;
• requirements for machines in health care facilities that clean, dry, disinfect or sterilize medical devices.
• sterilisation of porous-packaged loads.

We need new committee representatives who will look at modification by amendment to a de-jointed standard AS 5369:2023 Reprocessing of reusable medical devices and other devices in health and non-health related facilities.

IT-019 Information and Documentation, Information Technology - Learning, Education, Training and Research

What’s involved? Standardisation of interoperable ICT services in learning, education, training, research, and preservation, in particular in the fields of: 

• practices relating to libraries, documentation and information centres, museum documentation, indexing and abstracting services and information science.
• information technologies for learning, education, training (ITLET) to support individuals, groups, or organisations, and to enable interoperability and reusability of resources and tools, and
• research data management and curation.

We are seeking representatives for this standing committee which actively adopts international standards.

CH-025 Bitumen and Related Products (for Roadmaking)

What’s involved? The committee will focus on standardisation in the field of bitumen and related products for roadmaking. We need more representatives to join an existing committee.

ME -002 Gas Cylinders

What’s involved? Standardisation in the fields of the verification, filling, testing, maintenance, identification and construction of cylinders and attached fittings for the storage and transport of compressed gases.

This committee needs representatives from diverse industry groups relevant to the topic. This is a standing committee.

EL-008 Power Transformers

What’s involved? This committee is responsible to develop and maintain Standards for reactors and power transformers without limitation, for power and lighting systems rated at 1 kVA or over if single phase, and 5 kVA or over if polyphase. The committee is also responsible for National Standards for associated ancillary equipment such as on-load tapchangers and bushings; and for transformer and switchgear insulating fluids and materials.

This committee needs representatives from diverse industry groups relevant to the topic. This is a standing committee.

ME-067 Assistive Technology

What’s involved? Standardisation in the field of assistive products and related services for persons with disability. This committee needs more representatives to join one existing. This is a standing committee.

EL-059 Dishwashers, Clothes Washers and Dryers

What's involved? Preparation of standards relating to the assessment of performance, consumption of energy and water (where applicable) and measures of energy efficiency of household and similar electrical dishwashers, clothes washers and dryers, and where applicable, pay particular regard to the needs of energy labelling, and, Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS), and standby power requirements. This is a standing committee.