ISO/TC 176 ISO/TC 176 ISO/TC 176 is Technical Committee 176 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), responsible for Quality management and quality assurance - the ISO 9000 family of standards. The scope of the committee is ‘Standardization in the field of quality management (generic quality management systems and supporting technologies), as well as quality management standardization in specific sectors at the request of the affected sector and the ISO Technical Management Board’. Membership is open to any national body, in much the same way as membership in either of the two parent organizations. A member can be either participating (P) or
ISO 20252 ISO 20252 ISO 20252:2012 is an international quality standard first published in 2006 as a replacement for the existing British Standards BS 7911:2003. It was subsequently updated in 2012. Developed by an ISO Technical Committee in liaison with professional bodies EFAMRO, ESOMAR and WAPOR, the standard sets out requirements in a Quality Management System for organizations conducting market, opinion and social research. The standard is divided into five sections which collectively cover the end-to-end process of a research project. These sections are: In the UK the Market Research Society (a member of the EFAMRO which sits on the ISO liaison