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Bowers Named Chair of Social Responsibility TAG
Quality Progress, June, 2006 by Anonymous
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Dorothy Bowers has been named chair of the U.S. technical advisory group (TAG) to the ISO working group on social responsibility. This group represents the United States' interests in the development of ISO 26000, the upcoming social responsibility standard.
Bowers recently completed a three-year term as chair of the National Advisory Council on Environmental Policy and Technology for the Environmental Protection Agency. Before that, she created ISO technical committee (TC) 207, which intialIy wrote and now updates environmental management standard ISO 14001. She is currently chair of the U.S. TAG to TC 207.
A chemical engineer, Bowers was vice president of environmental policy when she retired from Merck & Co. in 1999 after 25 years with the...
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