The role of international standardization for the safe practice of hydrogen

Safety is a key issue whenever hydrogen is of concern, an issue that needs to be urgently and adequately addressed to ensure global dissemination of hydrogen and its technologies. International exchangeability of hydrogen technologies would be very difficult if there is no common language and understanding as to how tolerable risk could be achieved. Standardization, especially if international, is meant to provide such technical agreements. An overview of how the safety aspects are covered within the current projects of ISO/TC 197, the ISO technical committee dealing with Hydrogen technologies, will be provided as well as some insight as to how one could initiate a project and how it will proceed after its acceptance.