British Standards[edit]

BSI Group headquarters in Chiswick district in London.

 BS 0 A standard for standards specifies Development, Structure and Drafting of British

Standards themselves.
 BS 1 Lists of Rolled Sections for Structural Purposes
 BS 2 Specification and Sections of Tramway Rails and Fishplates
 BS 3 Report on Influence of Gauge Length and Section of Test Bar on the Percentage of
Elongation
 BS 4 Specification for Structural Steel Sections
 BS 5 Report on Locomotives for Indian Railways
 BS 6 Properties of Rolled Sections for Structural Purposes
 BS 7 Dimensions of Copper Conductors Insulated Annealed, for Electric Power and Light
 BS 8 Specification for Tubular Tramway Poles
 BS 9 Specification and Sections of Bull Head Railway Rails
 BS 10 Tables of Pipe Flanges
 BS 11 Specifications and Sections of Flat Bottom Railway Rails
 BS 12 Specification for Portland Cement
 BS 13 Specification for Structural Steel for Shipbuilding
 BS 14 Specification for Structural Steel for Marine Boilers
 BS 15 Specification for Structural Steel for Bridges, etc., and General Building
Construction
 BS 16 Specification for telegraph material (insulators, pole fittings, etc.)
 BS 17 Interim Report on Electrical Machinery
 BS 18 Forms of Tensile Test Pieces
 BS 19 Report on Temperature Experiments on Field Coils of Electrical Machines
 BS 20 Report on *BS Screw Threads
 BS 21 Report on Pipe Threads for Iron or Steel Pipes and Tubes
 BS 22 Report on Effect of Temperature on Insulating Materials
 BS 23 Standards for Trolley Groove and Wire,
 BS 24 Specifications for Material used in the Construction of Standards for Railway
Rolling Stock
 BS 25 Report on Errors in Workmanship Based on Measurements Carried Out for the
Committee by the National Physical Laboratory
 BS 26 Second Report on Locomotives for Indian Railways (Superseding No 5)
 BS 27 Report on Standard Systems of Limit Gauges for Running Fits
 BS 28 Report on Nuts, Bolt Heads and Spanners
 BS 29 Specification for Ingot Steel Forgings for Marine Purposes,
 BS 30 Specification for Steel Castings for Marine Purposes,
 BS 31 Specification for Steel Conduits for Electrical Wiring
 BS 32 Specification for Steel Bars for use in Automatic Machines
 BS 33 Carbon Filament Electric Lamps
 BS 34 Tables of BS Whitworth, BS Fine and BS Pipe Threads
 BS 35 Specification for Copper Alloy Bars for use in Automatic Machines
 BS 36 Report on British Standards for Electrical Machinery
 BS 37 Specification for Electricity Meters
 BS 38 Report on British Standards Systems for Limit Gauges for Screw Threads
 BS 39 Combined Report on BS Screw Threads
 BS 40 Specification for Spigot and Socket Cast Iron Low Pressure Heating Pipes
 BS 41 Specification for Spigot and Socket Cast Iron Flue or Smoke Pipes
 BS 42 Report on Reciprocating Steam Engines for Electrical Purposes
 BS 43 Specification for Charcoal Iron Lip-welded Boiler Tubes
 BS 44 Specification for Cast Iron Pipes for Hydraulic Power
 BS 45 Report on Dimensions for Sparking Plugs (for Internal Combustion Engines)
 BS 46 Specification for Keys and Keyways
 BS 47 Steel Fishplates for Bullhead and Flat Bottom Railway Rails, Specification and
Sections of
 BS 48 Specification for Wrought Iron of Smithing Quality for Shipbuilding (Grade D)
 BS 49 Specification for Ammeters and Voltmeters
 BS 50 Third Report on Locomotives for Indian Railways (Superseding Nos. 5 and 26)
 BS 51 Specification for Wrought Iron for use in Railway Rolling Stock (‘Best Yorkshire’
and Grades A, B and C)
 BS 52 Specification for bayonet lamp-caps lampholders and B.C. adaptors (lampholder
plugs)
 BS 53 Specification for Cold Drawn Weldless Steel Boiler Tubes for Locomotive Boilers
 BS 54 Report on Screw Threads, Nuts and Bolt Heads for use in Automobile
Construction
 BS 55 Report on Hard Drawn Copper and Bronze Wire
 BS 56 Definitions of Yield Point and Elastic Limit
 BS 57 Report on heads for Small Screws
 BS 58 Specification for Spigot and socket Cast Iron Soil Pipes
 BS 59 Specification for Spigot and Socket Cast Iron Waste and Ventilating Pipes (for
other than Soil Purposes)
 BS 60 Report of Experiments on Tungsten Filament Glow Lamps
 BS 61 Specification for Copper Tubes and their Screw Threads (primarily for domestic
and similar work)
 BS 62 Screwing for Marine Boiler Stays,
 BS 63 Specification for Sizes of Broken Stone and Chippings,
 BS 64 Specification for Fishbolts and Nuts for Railway Rails
 BS 65 Specification for Salt-Glazed Ware Pipes,
 BS 66 Specification for Copper-Alloy Three-Piece Unions (for Low and Medium Pressure
Screwed Copper Tubes)
 BS 67 Specification for Two and Three-Plate Ceiling Roses
 BS 68 Method of Specifying the Resistance of Steel Conductor Rails,
 BS 69 Report on Tungsten Filament Glow Lamps (Vacuum Type) for Automobiles
 BS 70 Report on Pneumatic Tyre Rims for Automobiles, Motor Cycles and Cycles
 BS 71 Report on Dimensions of Wheel Rims and Tyre Bands for Solid Rubber Tyres for
Automobiles
 BS 72 British Standardisation Rules for Electrical Machinery,
 BS 73 Specification for Two-Pin Wall Plugs and Sockets (Five-, Fifteen- and Thirty-
Ampere)
 BS 74 Charging Plug and Socket, for Vehicles Propelled by Electric Secondary Batteries,
Specification for
 BS 75 Steels for Automobiles, Specification for Wrought
 BS 76 Report of and Specifications for Tar and Pitch for Road Purposes
 BS 77 Specification. Voltages for a.c. transmission and distribution systems
 BS 78 Specification for Cast Iron Pipes and Special Castings for Water, Gas and Sewage
 BS 79 Report on Dimensions of Special Trackwork for Tramways
 BS 80 Magnetos for Automobile Purposes
 BS 81 Specification for Instrument Transformers
 BS 82 Specification for Starters for Electric Motors
 BS 83 Standard of Reference for Dope and Protective Covering for Aircraft
 BS 84 Report on Screw Threads (British Standard Fine), and their Tolerances
(Superseding parts of Reports Nos. 20 and 33)
 BS 86 Report on Dimensions of Magnetos for Aircraft Purposes
 BS 87 Report on Dimensions for Airscrew Hubs
 BS 88 Specification for cartridge fuses for voltages up to and including 1000 V a.c. and
1500 V d.c. Originally titled: “Specification for Electric Cut-Outs (Low Pressure, Type O)”
 BS 89 Specification for Indicating Ammeters, Voltmeters, Wattmeters, Frequency and
Power-Factor Meters
 BS 90 Specification for Recording (Graphic) Ammeters, Voltmeters and Wattmeters
 BS 95 Tables of Corrections to Effective Diameter required to compensate Pitch and
Angle Errors in Screw Threads of Whitworth Form
 BS 98 Specification for Goliath Lamp Caps and Lamp Holders
 BS 103 Specification for Falling Weight Testing Machines for Rails
 BS 104 Sections of Light Flat Bottom Railway Rails and Fishplates
 BS 105 Sections of Light and Heavy Bridge Type Railway Rails
 BS 107 Standard for Rolled Sections for Magnet Steel
 BS 196 for protected-type non-reversible plugs, socket-outlets cable-couplers and
appliance-couplers with earthing contacts for single phase a.c. circuits up to 250 volts
 BS 308 a now deleted standard for engineering drawing conventions, having been
absorbed into BS 8888.
 BS 317 for Hand-Shield and Side Entry Pattern Three-Pin Wall Plugs and Sockets (Two
Pin and Earth Type)
 BS 336 for fire hose couplings and ancillary equipment
 BS 372 for Side-entry wall plugs and sockets for domestic purposes (Part 1 superseded
BS 73 and Part 2 superseded BS 317)
 BS 381 for colours used in identification, coding and other special purposes
 BS 476 for fire resistance of building materials / elements
 BS 499 Welding terms and symbols.
 BS 546 for Two-pole and earthing-pin plugs, socket-outlets and socket-outlet adaptors for
AC (50–60 Hz) circuits up to 250V
 BS 857 for safety glass for land transport
 BS 970 Specification for wrought steels for mechanical and allied engineering purposes
 BS 987C Camouflage Colours[7]
 BS 1088 for marine plywood
 BS 1192 for Construction Drawing Practice. Part 5 (BS1192-5:1998) concerns Guide for
structuring and exchange of CAD data.
 BS 1361 for cartridge fuses for a.c. circuits in domestic and similar premises
 BS 1362 for cartridge fuses for BS 1363 power plugs
 BS 1363 for mains power plugs and sockets
 BS 1377 Methods of test for soils for civil engineering.
 BS 1572 Colours for Flat Finishes for Wall Decoration[8]
 BS 1881 Testing Concrete
 BS 1852 Specification for marking codes for resistors and capacitors
 BS 2660 Colours for building and decorative paints
 BS 2979 Transliteration of Cyrillic and Greek Letters
 BS 3262 Hot-applied thermoplastic road marking materials
 BS 3506 for unplasticized PVC pipe for industrial uses
 BS 3621 Thief resistant lock assembly. Key egress.
 BS 3943 Specification for plastics waste traps
 BS 4142 Methods for rating and assessing industrial and commercial sound
 BS 4293 for residual current-operated circuit-breakers
 BS 4343 for industrial electrical power connectors
 BS 4573 Specification for 2-pin reversible plugs and shaver socket-outlets
 BS 4800 for paint colours used in building construction
 BS 4900 for vitreous enamel colours used in building construction
 BS 4901 for plastic colours used in building construction
 BS 4902 for sheet / tile floor covering colours used in building construction
 BS 4960 for weighing instruments for domestic cookery
 BS 4962 for plastics pipes and fittings for use as subsoil field drains
 BS 5252 for colour-coordination in building construction
 BS 5400 for steel, concrete and composite bridges.
 BS 5499 for graphical symbols and signs in building construction; including shape, colour
and layout
 BS 5544 for anti-bandit glazing (glazing resistant to manual attack)
 BS 5750 for quality management, the ancestor of ISO 9000
 BS 5759 Specification for webbing load restraint assemblies for use in surface transport
 BS 5837 for protection of trees during construction work
 BS 5839 for fire detection and alarm systems for buildings
 BS 5930 for site investigations
 BS 5950 for structural steel
 BS 5993 for Cricket balls
 BS 6008 for preparation of a liquor of tea for use in sensory tests
 BS 6312 for telephone plugs and sockets
 BS 6651 code of practice for protection of structures against lightning; replaced by BS
EN 62305 (IEC 62305) series.
 BS 6701 installation, operation and maintenance of telecommunications equipment and
telecommunications cabling
 BS 6879 for British geocodes, a superset of ISO 3166-2:GB
 BS 7430 code of practice for earthing
 BS 7671 Requirements for Electrical Installations, The IEE Wiring Regulations, produced
by the IET.
 BS 7799 for information security, the ancestor of the ISO/IEC 27000 family of standards,
including 27002 (formerly 17799)
 BS 7901 for recovery vehicles and vehicle recovery equipment
 BS 7909 Code of practice for temporary electrical systems for entertainment and related
purposes
 BS 7919 Electric cables. Flexible cables rated up to 450/750V, for use with appliances
and equipment intended for industrial and similar environments
 BS 7910 guide to methods for assessing the acceptability of flaws in metallic structures
 BS 7925 Software testing
 BS 7971 Protective clothing and equipment for use in violent situations and in training
 BS 8110 for structural concrete
 BS 8233 Guidance on sound insulation and noise reduction in buildings
 BS 8484 for the provision of lone worker device services
 BS 8485 for the characterization and remediation from ground gas in affected
developments
 BS 8494 for detecting and measuring carbon dioxide in ambient air or extraction systems
 BS 8546 Travel adaptors compatible with UK plug and socket system.
 BS 8888 for engineering drawing and technical product specification
 BS 15000 for IT Service Management, (ITIL), now ISO/IEC 20000
 BS 3G 101 for general requirements for mechanical and electromechanical aircraft
indicators
  BS EN 12195 Load restraining on road vehicles.
 BS EN 60204 Safety of machinery
 BS EN ISO 4210 - Cycles. Safety Requirements for Bicycles

BSI also publishes a series of PAS documents.

PAS documents are a flexible and rapid standards development model that is open to all
organizations

 PAS 78: Guide to good practice in commissioning accessible websites

 PAS 72 Responsible Fishing - Specification of good practice for fishing vessels
 PAS 77 IT Service continuity management code of practice
 PAS 82 Shopfitting and interior contracting. Management system specification
 PAS 100 Composting specification
 PAS 101 Specification for recovered container glass
 PAS 102 Specification for processed glass for selected secondary end markets
 PAS 103 Collected waste plastics packaging
 PAS 104 Wood recycling in the panelboard manufacturing industry
 PAS 105 Recovered paper sourcing and quality. Code of practice
 PAS 777 Specification for the qualification and labelling of used automotive engines and any
related transmission units
 PAS 911 Fire strategies - guidance and framework for their formulation
 PAS 1192 A series of specifications for building information modelling (BIM).[9]