{"id":4355,"date":"2014-11-20T08:41:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T13:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/?p=4355"},"modified":"2014-11-20T08:58:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T13:58:07","slug":"visual-analysis-of-iso-tmbs-transparency-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/visual-analysis-of-iso-tmbs-transparency-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Analysis of ISO TMB&#8217;s Transparency Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ISO Technical Management Board (TMB) is responsible for the development of the Annex SL content and &#8220;high level structure&#8221; requirements that must now be used by all ISO Technical Committees (TCs) when drafting ISO management system standards. This has caused some to question how the TMB, which is not comprised of the same consensus representation as the TCs, can draft standards such as ISO 31000 on risk management, or dictate content to all other TCs in their work.<\/p>\n<p>ISO policy, as well as international regulations such as those of the World Trade Organization, require that standards be developed in a transparent manner, to ensure proper user and stakeholder participation, and to prevent barriers to free trade.<\/p>\n<p>The TMB is subject to a number of controlling ISO documents, including the TMB Rules of Procedure, which are <a href=\"http:\/\/isotc.iso.org\/livelink\/livelink?func=ll&amp;objId=15688119&amp;objAction=browse&amp;viewType=1\" target=\"_blank\">publicly available<\/a>. A review of the Rules of Procedure show two sections that are relevant to the transparency of TMB work. These are Clause 3 &#8220;TMB members\u2019 contributions to ISO technical work&#8221; and Clause 4 &#8220;Transparency and communication of TMB work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oxebridge has analyzed the language of the Rules and discovered that a majority of the language\u00a0acts to limit or restrict concepts normally considered related to transparency. In conducting this exercise, the common understanding of transparency used was a moral position derived from openness, communication and accountability.<\/p>\n<p>Using a color coding system for the words in Clauses 3 and 4 of the Rules of Procedure, the contrast is immediately apparent. To conduct the analysis, the language of the clauses was inserted into a single document of a single font, font size and line height. The language was then analyzed and color coded using\u00a0the following conditions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Language that <strong>promoted<\/strong> openness, communication or\u00a0accountability was coded <strong>green<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Language that <strong>limited<\/strong> openness, communication or\u00a0accountability\u00a0was coded <strong>pink<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Language that <strong>restricted<\/strong> <strong>or prohibited<\/strong> openness, communication and accountability was coded <strong>red<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4356\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/transparency.jpg\" alt=\"transparency\" width=\"303\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/transparency.jpg 668w, https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/transparency-142x150.jpg 142w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Analyzing the word count, Oxebridge discovered that of the 645 highlighted words, 68% &#8212; more than two thirds &#8212; were either limiting or restricting of common principles of transparency.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4357\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/transparencypie.jpg\" alt=\"transparencypie\" width=\"196\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/transparencypie.jpg 344w, https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/transparencypie-140x150.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oxebridge is currently investigating whether the TMB and its imposition of Annex SL have violated ISO rules or WTO regulations preventing technical barriers to trade.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ISO Technical Management Board (TMB) is responsible for the development of the Annex SL content and &#8220;high level structure&#8221; requirements that must now be used by all ISO Technical Committees (TCs) when drafting ISO management system standards. Oxebridge has analyzed the language of TMB Rules and discovered that a majority of the language acts to limit or restrict concepts normally considered related to transparency. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[270,43,244,272,245],"class_list":["post-4355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-annex-sl","tag-iso","tag-iso-tmb","tag-technical-management-board","tag-wto","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4355"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4360,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions\/4360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}