Standard for Medical Face Masks, ASTM F2100-21
Some 16 million people work in the healthcare sector, doing the work that keeps the rest of us alive. Personal protective equipment (PPE), such as […]
More Than a Digital Transcript: Social and Organizational Implications of LERs
A recent publication in Issues in Science and Technology–co-authored by Workcred’s Isabel Cardenas-Navia and New America’s Shalin Jyotishi–explores Learning and Employment Records (LERs), digital records […]
ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 188-2021 for Legionnaires’ Disease Risk Management
ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 188-2021: Legionellosis: Risk Management for Building Water Systems, an American National Standard, aims to minimize the potential for Legionnaires’ disease to spread throughout […]
ISO 639 Codes for Ancient Languages
Thanks to practices in philology and related disciplines, languages subsumed, displaced, or superseded by contemporary languages or otherwise lost to time are accessible today. For […]
ANSI A137.1:2021 – Standard Specifications For Ceramic Tile
The standard for ceramic tile, ANSI A137.1:2021 – American National Standard Specifications For Ceramic Tile, covers quality criteria useful for buyers, specifiers, installers, manufacturers, and […]
Standard Mechanical Testing of Steel Products in ASTM A370-20
Where Can You Find Steel? Steel is in favor. Look to your right, your left, up, down, wherever—odds are that you will catch a glimpse […]
Validity of Results
ISO/IEC 17025:2017, Section 7.7, “Ensuring the validity of results,” is a wonderful tool for laboratories confirming their end data is accurate and reliable. The standard […]
Standard for High-Strength Low-Alloy (HSLA) Structural Steel
Steel is a group effort. The addition of alloying elements or additives heightens the properties of steel, improving its mechanical properties, weldability, and resistance to […]
Jet Fuel Specifications
Due to millions of years of high pressure exerted on the decomposed phytoplankton and algae that once lived in shallow seas, the earth possesses petroleum, a […]
Standard Specification for Flat Glass, ASTM C1036-21
In architecture, glass serves the integral role of acting as part of the building envelope and providing transparent barriers through which individuals inside can maintain […]