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Standards Norway has since 2004 had an action plan on universal design in standardization.

Norway is spearheading a worldwide trend where the main focus is the safe use of elevators, escalators, moving walks and other lifting equipment.

There were intensive discussions at the meeting of ISO’s environmental management committee, ISO/TC 207, in Oslo. Considerable progress was made in areas like life cycle assessment, environmental performance, environmental audit, ecodesign, carbon footprint, use of resources, and management of water as a scarce resource.

This year’s annual meeting in ISO/TC 207 took place in Oslo from 25 June to 1 July 2011, and Standards Norway is very pleased to have hosted the event. Around 350 delegates where attending different meetings during the week. You can experience some of this online

I forbindelse med sitt 100 års jubileum vil Norsk Elektroteknisk Komite (NEK) være  vertskap for IEC General Meeting i 2012.

You can follow the Open Session during the ISO General Assembly in Oslo  today.

If a journey from start to end is to be as accessible as possible it is vital that all the elements of the travel chain function.

Drowning is one of the leading causes of accidental deaths of children in many countries, killing more than 175 000 a year.

Bryggens Museum in Bergen on the west coast of Norway is a cultural-historical museum with archaeology finds from the Middle Ages. The museum has 40 000 visitors a year and was already built to accessibility principles in 1976. For example, all three floors are connected with ramps for wheelchairs. The museum has also made a special exhibition for blind and vision-impaired people.

Scandic Hotels is the Nordic region’s leading hotel chain, with 139 hotels in nine countries of which 15 are situated in Norway.