Who develops the policies?

The Executive Board has empowered the ISA Committee on Engineering, Science, and Technology Policy (ESTP) to establish policy subcommittees that report to the Board through the ESTP. The subcommittees are composed of at least five members, appointed by the President, who have professional expertise relative to specific public policy issues of concern to instrumentation, systems, and automation professionals. These subcommittees are in existence for the time period for which a specific issue is relevant to the Society. In addition to these policy subcommittees, individual members, district councils, technical divisions, directors and officers may and should be participants in the policy development process. Along with the ISA staff, ESTP will make every effort to ensure that every appropriate component of the Society has an opportunity to comment on proposed policy documents. However, the ESTP must balance the desire to provide an opportunity for comment with the need for timely consideration of an issue.

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