Power outages:

• Biggest long-term

economic impact and

developmental losses

• Can exacerbate initial

disaster (Hurricane

Sandy, Fukushima,

etc.)

3

Not a single dedicated

suite of disaster

Standards

Include safety, risk

assessment, quality and

performance aspects

Serve as basis for

testing, verification and

regulation

GAR report

Participation in

Working Session 31:

Standards for DRR at

WCDRR in Sendai

White Paper available

on UN preventionweb.

State-of the art consensus & expertise (thousands of experts)

Solutions to challenges faced by multiple countries

For anybody to use

Consensus: 2/3 majority

Regulators, scientific

and engineering

communities involved

at every step through

IEC National

Committee

No need to travel to

influence an IEC

International Standard

Scientists, technical

community,

government

representatives

More DRR specialists

= better Standards

Data flow through

experts

National standards can slow recovery:

You can’t buy on the world market

Equipment may not interoperate

Receiving help and technical support can be more difficult

Don’t use proprietary systems and conventions

Agree on:

Number of data points

How data will be stored and shared

Terminology (build on what’s there)

ISO 22300:2012 –

Societal security – free

on iso.org/obp

IEC 60050 – free on

electropedia.org

Make your needs

heard and adopt and

use International

Standards for quality

national infrastructure

Do not reinvent the

wheel: use existing

certification protocols