This report describes the British, European and International Standard Series BS EN ISO 9000 on quality management and quality assurance, and also discusses its application to road lighting design. In 1994, this series was published as the revision of the former British Standard BS 5750. A further revision, proposed in 1998, will concentrate on the principles of total quality management. To comply with the standards, a company or organisation must specify staff responsibilities, produce a hierarchy of documents, called the Corporate Quality System, and adopt a Quality Audit procedure. Staffordshire County Council, in England, is an example of a local authority that achieved Part 1 Quality Assurance accreditation for its highway design activities, including road lighting. In the Council, the County Lighting Engineer directs each road lighting design. A suitably qualified and experienced lighting engineer is responsible for the day-to-day management of the road lighting design process and related administrative functions. He is also responsible for ensuring that the quality system requirements are implemented on all road lighting projects under his control. The County Lighting Engineer is responsible for ensuring that the quality system requirements are implemented on all road lighting designs in the county.
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