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How To: Participate in the Balloting Process
Balloting is one of the core elements of standards development. Participating in task groups offers an opportunity to shape standards at the earliest stages, while subcommittee and main committee ballots allow members to guide standards to the… more
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Member Jargon
Ballot: Could be task group (though always informal at this stage), sub, or main (all defined below) as a new or revised standard goes through the required voting process. Chair: Usually said along with main, sub, task group to describe the person… more
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Training to Support Your ASTM Work
Need more information about a committee role or the standards process? If you have a specific question (or a few), contact your staff manager. To help increase your understanding of the standards process, technical contact/officer responsibilities,… more
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How to Participate
As a committee member, your participation drives the standards development process. Your knowledge and experience help to create useful standards of the highest technical quality. And your perspective adds value to the process, so please don’t… more
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How to Elect Committee Officers
2019 is a year for electing committee officers: chairman, vice chairman/chairmen, membership secretary, and recording secretary.  Subcommittee officers are not part of this election process as they are appointed separately in accordance with an… more
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ASTM Standards and Voting
You can vote. And you should. As an ASTM International member you are entitled — as stated in the Regulations Governing ASTM Technical Committees — to vote on all main and subcommittee ballots where you hold membership. These are your “voting… more
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The Robert’s Rules Tool
Fairness. Productivity. Efficiency. These are universal goals for meeting outcomes in offices and conference rooms around the world. One tried-and-true tool to ensure fairness, productivity, and efficiency used by ASTM International technical… more
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Your First Meeting ... Plus, Regs Corner on the Basics of Voting
Attending your first ASTM International meeting, or thinking about it? Welcome! To get important general information about meetings, which are open to all interested parties, check the information at www.astm.org/MEETINGS, both for committee weeks (… more
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Collaboration Areas Enhanced
You may have noticed that your online collaboration areas got an upgrade. The new ASTM International Collaboration Areas are more useful and intuitive in supporting your standards development work. The collaboration areas now reside on ASTM… more
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Exploring Ideas for New Standards
Like questions that should be asked, ideas for standards should be explored. Ideas for new standards come from “aha” moments — maybe as you unwind with colleagues after a meeting (the origin of more than one useful ASTM International standard) — or… more
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Products, Standards, and Certification
If the scope of your standard specification — existing or proposed — covers a product, consider certification for it. Certification, a kind of conformity assessment, seeks to ensure that any given product meets the standard’s performance… more
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Metals & Materials, Safety, Environment, Transportation, Chemicals, Energy, Medical, Quality, Consumer Products, Construction