You might be an engineer if:

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You might be an engineer if

• you take a cruise so you can go on a personal
  tour of the engine room
• in university, you thought that Spring Break was
  metal fatigue failure
• the sales people at the local computer store
  cant answer all of your questions
• at an air show, you know how fast the skydivers
  are falling
• you still own a slide rule and know how to use it

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• It is essential that only such words should be
  used by the law-giver as are bound to produce the
  same notions in the minds of all
  men. Montesquieu

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• To the optimist, the glass is half-fullTo the
  pessimist, the glass is half-emptyTo the
  engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs
  to be

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• In every situation, in every trade or
  profession, there is a certain idea which is so
  much present to ones mind, so clearly implied
  that it seems unnecessary to state it when
  speaking. Michel Breal

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Interdisciplinary Practice in the Transportation
of Dangerous Goods

• March 20, 2002

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Why do we need engineers?

• Build, design
• Develop energy system

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Why do we need government?

• Civilized rules to govern society
• Legislation Enforcement

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What is the connection between engineers and
government?

• Safety
• Provide society with goods and services that make
  life better, more comfortable and safe

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How is this safety achieved?

• Legislation
• Primary
• Subordinate

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What is legislation?

• Written document
• Policies principles
• Guide human behaviour
• Ensure societal norms

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Just what are standards?

• Establish accepted practices technical
  requirements
• Set out characteristics of product, service or
  system
• Ensure product, service or system is uniform,
  compatible safe

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How are standards incorporated into law?

• Reproduced directly into statute or regulation
• Incorporated by reference into statute or
  regulation

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How does all this relate to me?
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Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act, 1992

• Politicians Statute - 19 pages in length
• Bureaucrats Regulations - 800 pages in length
• Engineers Standards - 30,000 pages in length

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Types of standards

• prescriptive - product characteristics
• performance - tests that simulate product
  performance
• under actual service conditions
• design - specific design or technical
  characteristics of
• a product
• management - management processes

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What is the role of standards?

• benefit public safety, health, welfare
• assist and protect consumers
• facilitate trade and commerce within and between
  countries
• advance the national economy
• consensus process

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Standards Council of Canada (SCC)

• federal Crown Corporation
• 15-member governing Council
• mandate to promote efficient and effective
  standardisation
• reports to Parliament through the Minister of
  Industry
• national international role

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SCC-accredited Standards Development
Organisations (SDOs)

• Canadian General Standards Board (CGSB)
• Canadian Standards Association (CSA)
• Underwriters Laboratories of Canada (ULC)
• Bureau de normalisation du Québec (BNQ)

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International system of standards development

• International Organisation for Standardisation
  (ISO)
• International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)
• International Telecommunications Union (ITU)

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How does Canada contribute to international
standardisation?

• SCC coordinates Canadian contribution
• SCC is a member body of ISO ( IEC)
• Canadian Advisory Committees (CACs) for each of
  the ISO technical committees, subcommittees, and
  working groups
• SCC submits Canadian votes comments
• represent SCC when attending meetings
• SCC can be the Secretariat of a ISO technical
  committee or subcommittee

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How are international standards developed
used?An example
54 ISO standards published 48 current work items
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UN Model Regulations on the Transport of
Dangerous Goods
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• No intelligent man will be so bold as to put
  into language those things which his reason has
  contemplated if he should be betrayed into so
  doing, then surely not the gods but mortals have
  utterly blasted his wits. Platos Seventh
  Epistle

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• Language has, in fact, many of the qualities
  possessed by human beings themselves it tends to
  be emotional when pure reason is required, it is
  sometimes unsure of what it means, it changes
  form, meaning, sound. It is slippery, elusive,
  hard to fix, define, delimit.
• Anthony Burgess
• A Mouthful of Air

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Clear Law

• Why is the standard necessary?To whom does the
  standard apply?To what does the standard
  apply?Where does the standard apply?When does
  the standard apply?How does the standard work?

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• Brimful (overflow) capacity - maximum volume of
  water in litres held by the packaging when filled
  through the designed filling orifice to the point
  of overflowing in its normal position of filling.

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• Determination of brimful capacity - a packaging
  intended to contain liquids shall be filled to
  not less than 98 of the brimful capacity. The
  brimful (overflow) capacity is determined for
  example by
• weighing the empty packaging including closures
  (mass empty m kg) and
• weighing the packaging full (mass m kgs brimful
  W kg)

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• The packaging shall be filled with water until
  the water just overflows and then fitting the
  closure and any surplus mopped up. No steps
  shall be taken, e.g. by tilting or tapping the
  packaging, to enable the water to penetrate into
  a hollow handle or other design feature above the
  closure.b W - mb is the brimful capacity in
  litres.W is the mass of the packaging when
  brimful with water in kilograms.m is the mass of
  the empty packaging in kilograms.