This material of the EU project HSbooser.eu aims to help:

1. understand the basic meaning of standards and standardisation;
2. explain how and why consensus has a different meaning in standardisation;
3. explain why standardisation can be called “the habit-forming process of the industry”; and
4. understand that, based on different points of view, standard can be defined as a document (for
standard makers) or solution (for standard takers).