Another aspect to all this is that we need to recruit a young, competent, technical workforce. They are subsequently shuffled off to the broom closet of standardization departments to finish their days puttering around with standards. We do not accept this scenario. Standards are an essential part of global trade and both industry and government are waking up to this. The people who prepare standards are conscientious, professional engineers, whose contribution is highly valuable and highly valued.
Experience is an asset, but so is dynamism and enthusiasm.
We want to see both involved in preparing our standards. We want young engineers graduating from university to see involvement in standardization as a potentially valuable addition to their careers. Global competence This is further reinforced by the need to strengthen global competence. What I mean by that is two things. First, we need to ensure that standards continued to be adopted globally and we must work towards broadening their adoption and application.