4178 OSL) International Standard INTERNATIONAL. ORGANIZATION FOR STANDARDIZATION MEXAYHAPOAHAH OPTAHM3ALMA HIO CTAHAAPT3ALIWM+ORGANISATION INTE RNATIONALE DE NORMALISATION Complete, filled transport packages - Distribution trials - Information to be recorded Emballages d'expédition complets et pleins - Essais relatifs au systeme de distribution - Informations a noter First edition - 1980-03-15 UDC 621.798.1 Ref. No. iSO 4178-1980 (E) 4178-1980 Descriptors : packages, transport packages, complete and filled packages, information, data processing, mechanical shock, vibration. CopyrightInemnationalrganizationfrStandardization Price based on 3 pages without license from IHS Not for Resale Foreword ISo (the International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide federation of national standards institutes (IsO member bodies). The work of developing Inter- national Standards is carried out through Iso technical committees, Every member body interested in a subject for which a technical committee has been set up has the right to be represented on that committee. International organizations, governmental and non-governmental, in liaison with isO, also take part in the work. Draft International Standards adopted by the technical committees are circulated to the member bodies for approval before their acceptance as International Standards by the iSO Council. International Standard ISO 4178 was developed by Technical Committee ISO/TC 122, Packaging, and was circulated to the member bodies in March 1979. It has been approved by the member bodies of the following countries : Germany, F.R. Poland Australia Austria Hungary Romania India Belgium South Africa, Rep. of Brazil Israel Spain Bulgaria Italy Sweden Canada Japan United Kingdom Czechoslovakia Libyan Arab Jamahiriya USA Denmark Netherlands USSR France New Zealand Yugoslavia No member body expressed disapproval of the document: @ International Organization for Standardization, 1980 Printed in Switzerland without license from IHS Not for Resale INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO 4178-1980 (E) Complete, filled transport packages --- Distribution trials - Information to be recorded 0 Introduction e) the time intervals between the various operations carried out on the package(s); The relationship between the hazards encountered by complete, filled transport packages in a distribution system and f) the duration of each of the various operations carried the resulting damage that may be sustained by the packages out on packages; and/or their contents is important in the development of new test methods, in refining existing test methods, and in the g) the modes of transport, if any, involved at each stage of preparation of appropriate test schedules. the trial. The study of such relationships is facilitated if, when carrying out distribution trials involving complete, flled transport 2.2 Results of trial packages, adequate information is recorded and if such information is recorded on a uniform basis. This enables proper The results of the trial shall be given and may be quoted in comparisons to be made of data obtained at different times and terms of the reduction in quality of the package and/or its con- under various circumstances. tents, by the extent of loss of package contents, by the extent of damage to the package and/or its contents,or in terms of The purpose of this International Standard is to aid such measurements made on the package and/or the contents comparisons by specifying the information to be recorded. its Preferably, the results shall be in such terms that changes in the contents are likely to be of interest to all concerned with factors under investigation in the trial can be correctly assigned distribution trials involving complete, filled fransport packages. to the operations and hazards in the distribution system that produce them. Scope and field of application 2.3 Package This International Standard specifies the information to be A description of each package s