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SCC is committed to contributing to the fight against forced labour and child labour by establishing due diligence practices to prevent and reduce the risk that forced labour or child labour is used at any step in the...

Version 1 – March 2024 This document describes Good Laboratory Practice Recognition Program requirements, scope, personnel and training, inspection cycle, monitoring authority operation, and publicity guidelines.

SCC developed this guidance document to introduce Canadian organizations to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and to recommend standardization strategies that can facilitate the compliance process. This regulation...

Standards play an important role in supporting health care delivery. By outlining requirements and best practices for performance and process, standards can help patients, staff, and visitors avoid injury from medical devices...

The National Standards Strategy is a comprehensive strategy that explores new thinking and new priorities and engages with new stakeholders in the standards network. It considers the current geopolitical environment, national...

This series of case studies demonstrates the benefits of using standards to build sustainable, resilient communities.

Originally published in Canadian Manufacturers & Exporter's 20/20 Magazine, Nov - Dec 2015 In today’s global economy, having innovative ideas isn’t enough to ensure success. As the borders of business slowly disappear...

This document serves as a technical note to accompany the report “High-wind design of new woodframe houses has an average benefit-cost ratio of 6:1 in Canada” by K. Porter (2023). This technical note explores challenges and...

The purpose of this document is to amplify, where appropriate, generic technical and organizational criteria as stated in ISO/IEC 17025 for SCC accreditation of facilities that could perform ITS evaluation and testing. In...

Standards touch all facets of our lives. They are embedded in the products, processes and services we rely on in both work and personal lives, from the food sold in grocery stores to the skyscrapers that enable the expansion...

These guidelines outline the principles and key development steps of a Publicly Available Specification (PAS). It provides some procedural detail and is not definitive in nature to account for the intended flexibility of this...

Canadian communities are on the frontline of climate change. Without action, future costs from flooding events in Canada alone could reach $13.6 billion (CAD) 1 annually by the end of the century. And the costs are not only...