The Goal of Standards Organizations

The goal of standards organizations is to enhance both the global competitiveness of U.S. business and the U.S. quality of life by promoting and facilitating voluntary consensus standards and conformity assessment systems, and safeguarding their integrity The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has served in its capacity as administrator and coordinator of the United States private sector voluntary standardization system for more than 80 years. Founded in 1918 by five engineering societies and three government …

…than 30 hours. It was evident that a new national standard had to be developed to prevent a similar occurrence in the future. Up until that time, each municipality had its own unique set of standards for fire fighting equipment. As a result, research was conducted of over 600 fire hose couplings from around the country and one year later a national standard was created to ensure uniform fire safety equipment and the safety of Americans nationwide.