ISO/TC 292 started the revision of “ISO 28000:2007 Specification for security management systems for the supply chain” in September last year at the plenary meeting held in Bangkok. After circulating 2 working drafts and resolving the comments in virtual meetings the draft was now forwarded as CD for ballot and comment to the TC. The ballot started on August 19th and will end October 14th, 2020.

We took the opportunity to talk to Wolfgang Mahr, who has been involve in the work of ISO/TC 292 regarding Business continuity management standardization. Mr Mahr was also acting as Project leader for the ISO/IEC TS 17021-6:2014 Conformity assessment — Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of management systems — Part 6: Competence requirements for auditing and certification of business continuity management systems.

In the context of the COVID-19 crisis, there have been requests from both ISO members and regional standards organizations to consider making a number of ISO Standards and their national adoptions freely accessible in order to support global efforts to deal with the effects on businesses and organizations.

ISO/TR 22370:2020, Security and resilience — Urban resilience — Framework and principles has recently been published. Urban areas are projected to provide the living and work environment for two-thirds of the global population of close to 10 billion by 2050. Urban disasters have an increasingly costly local, regional, national and global socio-economic impact. For example, dramatic disaster events alone of the past decade have claimed over a million lives, affected more than 2.5 billion people and caused over $1 trillion in economic losses. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is more challenging in built-up urban areas owing to their density. In particular, informal settlements are ill prepared to implement the largely adopted global measures to curb the spread – handwashing, confinement and social distancing.

ISO has circulated a Draft International Standard (DIS) for ballot for the next edition of “ISO 22300 Security and resilience - Vocabulary". The ballot is open for comment until June 06 and available for public review.