# Presentation: 120627

## New Member Orientation

- New Member Orientation

## The ASTM Standards Development Process

**Developing Voluntary, Full-Consensus Standards for Materials, Products, Systems & Services World-Wide.**
**ASTM Has Approximately 11,000 Standards Used Internationally.**
**ASTM Standards Always Reflect the Most Current Technology Because they are Living Documents that are Continually Revised.**
**Over 31,000 Members from Around the Globe Participate on ASTM Committees.**

***ASTM***

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## ASTM Staff Support Structure

**ASTM Headquarters**

**Staff Managers**

**130 Technical Committees**
**31,000 Members**

***ASTM has a 180 person staff to manage & support the standard development activities of the Technical Committees.***

***Each Committee has an ASTM Staff Manager & Editor.  They ensure efficient committee operation & provide guidance & support in developing documents.***

**Form**
**&**
**Style**
**Manual**

**ASTM**
**Committee**
**Regulations**

***Managers & Editors help Technical Committees  abide by ASTM procedure & regulation in the development of standards.  They also assure that the documents are structured correctly.  ***

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## Technical Committee Organization

**MAIN COMMITTEE**

**Subcommittee**
**.01**

**Subcommittee**
**.02**

**Subcommittee**
**.03**

**Task Group**
**1**

**Task Group**
**2**

***Technical Committees form to address specific industry subjects.  They develop scopes to define their jurisdiction.***

***Subcommittees are established to address subsets of specialized subject matter under the scope of the Main Committee. ***

***Subcommittees further organize their expertise into small Task Groups.  This is the level at which documents are first developed and are subsequently revised.  ***

***ASTM has approximately 130 Technical Committees, 2,000 Subcommittees, & thousands more Task Groups that produce 1,200 drafts, or revisions to drafts, annually.***

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## Technical Committee Operations

- Bylaws
- Officers
- Ballots
- Symposia
- Funds

## Classification & Balance

***Producer***

***User***
***&***
***General Interest***

**ASTM**

**Classification & Balance**

***Technical Committees are balanced.  There are no more Producer voters than User & General Interest Voters.  This ensures  the development of fair, consensus, technically sound documents.  It protects the documents from bias.***

***The Committee on Technical Committee Operations (COTCO) maintains the Regulations & the activities of Technical Committees in accordance with them.  This includes issues such as classification, balance, and bylaw revision. ***

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**Document Types**

- Classification
- Guide
- Practice
- Specification
- Terminology
- Test Method

## ASTM Balloting Process

**TASK**
**GROUP**

**SUBCOMMITTEE**

**SOCIETY & MAIN COMMITTEE**

**COMMITTEE  ON  STANDARDS**

***Documents are drafted, and continually revised, in the Task Group by a few members who specialize in the subject matter.***

***A completed draft is voted on by the Subcommittee.  If approved, it moves to a Main Committee vote.  If not, it returns to the Task Group for re-drafting.***

***After Subcommittee approval, the Main Committee & entire Society vote on the draft.  If approved, it is presented to the Committee on Standards for final review.  If not, it returns to the Task Group  for re-drafting, & balloting is repeated.***

***The Committee on Standards (COS) is ***
***a standing committee ***
***of the Society.  It ***
***reviews the process by which each standard is developed or revised, to ensure ASTM procedure was administered. ***

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- Tools and Resources

*Technical Committee Officer Handbook*
*Regulations Governing ASTM Technical Committees *
*Form and Style Manual*
*Long Range Planning Manual*
- Membership Information Packets
- Committee Bylaws

## More Tools...

- Jurisdiction List
- Guide to *Preparing Revisions for Ballot*
*Guidelines for Writing Research Reports*
- Publicity Forms for _*Standardization News*_
- Submittal Forms

## Questions