What is NATO AQAP?
The Allied Quality Assurance Publications (AQAP) are standards for quality assurance systems that have been developed by NATO. The aim of the AQAP agreement is to define standards for Quality Assurance of defence products.
What do standards do?
Standards contain technical specifications or other precise criteria designed to be used consistently as a rule, guideline, or definition. They help to make life simpler and increase the reliability and the effectiveness of many of the goods and services we use.
How do standards work?
A standard is a repeatable, harmonised, agreed and documented way of doing something. Standards result from collective work by experts in a field and provide a consensus at the time when the standards are developed.
Why do we use standards?
Standards are needed to assure safety of products, to ensure that products and materials are tailored-made for their purpose, promote the interoperability of products and services, facilitate trade by removing trade barriers, promote common understanding of a product.
What does the Care Standards Act 2000 do?
In 2000 The Care Standards Act 2000 set up the Commission for Social Care Inspection which established a new system of national minimum standards for all residential and nursing homes and domiciliary services. Its primary function is to promote improvements in social care.
What are standards used for?
What are examples of standards?
The definition of a standard is something established as a rule, example or basis of comparison. An example of standard is a guideline governing what students must learn in the 7th grade. An example of standard is a piece of music that continues to be played throughout the years.