PAS 440:2020

• 03.080.20 Services for companies

This PAS provides guidance for companies that wish to innovate responsibly and to demonstrate their responsible behaviour by helping them to structure their thinking and by guiding their actions.

This PAS is relevant to all those taking new products, services or processes to market, and is also of interest to a company’s wider stakeholders including: members of the public, customers, scientists/innovators, regulators/ policy makers, financiers and investors, suppliers, current and prospective employees, and collaborators.

There are two main elements of responsible behaviour by companies:

1. company-level responsibility, applying to organizational behaviour in general (Clause 6); and

2. innovation-level responsibility, specific to each innovative development or class of developments (Clauses 7 and 8).