The British Standards Institution (BSI) is an association founded in 1901 at London, which received a royal charter in 1929 and took its present name in 1931. Its function is to formulate standards for building, engineering, chemical, textile, and electrical products, ensuring that they maintain a specified quality. Products so standardised make use of the Kite mark logo as a symbol of quality. Manufacturers who use the Kite mark do so under licence from the BSI on condition that products are subject to regular inspection. Apart from maintaining quality standards in this way, the BSI attempts to ensure that the design of goods is restricted to a sensible number of patterns and sizes for one purpose, to avoid unnecessary variety. The BSI, which collaborates closely with the International Standards Organization, is also actively concerned in metrology, providing information on units of measurement and issuing glossaries defining technical words. Research British Standards Institution
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