Introducing SPIHLs – A Standards Development Organization (SDO)
SPIHLs™: Spill Prevention Institute – Hot Liquid Safety Standards is seeking to be a Standards Development Organization (SDO) in the United States and Internationally with our frame of focus and expertise being the safe sale, service, operations, risk management, and distribution of hot coffee, hot tea, hot water, and hot chocolate through a drive thru, carry out, and in-house restaurant industry format.
Industry Standards are documents, systems, policies, procedures, regulations, and rules that have been agreed on by individuals, members, and groups of companies and people working in a specific industry or industry sector, or in use with a specific type or kind of product or service. The standards address product and service performance, safety, health, security, reliability, and risk reduction, and the reasonable and customary systems and methods for evaluating them.
A mandatory standard is a standard that requires compliance because of a government statue, code, or regulation; an organization’s internal standard, policy, or procedure; or the prior use, contractual agreement, or commitment by people working on behalf of the organization.
Best practices standards are created by members of the industry or specific organization based on what seems most reasonable and customary to produce the best results and is the most likely to reduce the most risk to improve the safety, health, and security for people and premises – based on specifications, warnings, methods of measurement, systems, and protocols.
Voluntary standards are still standards and are based on generally accepted and established policies, procedures, operating systems, and protocols used by operating members within and/or across an industry and/or industry sector. These are often referred to as consensus standards, best practices, guidelines, or safety rules.
A voluntary standard often becomes a mandatory standard as a result of its use, its reference, its understanding and knowledge, or its adoption by either a regulatory industry, governing body, industry expert or consultant, or the subject establishment and its management itself.
Industry standards of various kinds, types, and styles refer to codified and uncodified policies, procedures, systems, best practices, rules, guidelines, practices, and norms that are accepted by an industry, a sector of an industry, and/or experts participating in an industry. They serve as a measure of performance, conduct, or oversight for companies, management personnel, and employees, helping to determine what is reasonable and customary in specific circumstances or fields of operations or risk.
Some industry standards are static, and others are not static at all, as they evolve over the course of time to reflect changes in regulations, operations, best practices, technology, human resources, and risk management. Standards are commonly set by industry specific professional associations, government agencies, regulatory bodies, new legislation, industry companies, and industry experts – reflecting the individual and collective agreement of the best practices, safety rules, and policies that should govern certain industry activities, methods, operations, and protocols that are most likely to protect the safety, health, and security of people and premises. Understanding that these standards are not only important for operational risk and legal compliance, but also is the bedrock and foundation for maintaining the consistent and reliable quality of the products, services, and systems offered in any field.
SPIHLs™: Spill Prevention Institute – Hot Liquid Safety Standards is seeking to be a Standards Development Organization (SDO) in the United States and Internationally with our frame of focus and expertise being the safe sale, service, operations, risk management, and distribution of hot coffee, hot tea, hot water, and hot chocolate through a drive thru, carry out, and in-house restaurant industry format.