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This short paper describes work currently underway within ISO on standardisation in the field of fire safety. It describes the initiatives underway within the ISOrrC92 'Fire Safety' Committee to establish a strategy for the next ten years and beyond which acknowledges the increasing trend towards performance based regulation and the use of Fire Safety Engineering to achieve cost effective safe design. It is written from the perspective of the chairman of TC92 for whom changes to both title and scope of the Committee have necessitated a strategic review for the way forward. It explains the background to these changes and attempts to explain some of the procedures involved in ISO standardisation, as understood by the author with a research rather than a standardisation background.