The national standardisation programme is coordinated by SPRING Singapore, the national standards authority. It is to establish and publish Singapore Standards, by notification in the Government Gazette. The Standardisation Department in SPRING Singapore represents Singapore in regional and international standards activities and through these fora, promotes the alignment of national standards to international standards, and greater transparency in standards to facilitate Singapore 's exports and competitiveness.

The national standardisation programme develops Singapore Standards on a consensus basis and promotes the wide acceptance of Singapore Standards by industry and government to enhance enterprises' business competitiveness. The Standardisation Department coordinates the programme under the guidance of an industry-led national Standards Council (Annex A), which comprises representatives from the private and public sectors.

The Standards Council formulates the strategies and direction for the standardisation programme, with inputs and guidance from the Standardisation Advisory Group on Singapore Industry and organizational view on policies, strategies and priorities for the Singapore Standardisation and related programmes. Headed by a Chairman and assisted by a Deputy Chairman, its membership comprises the Chairmen and Deputy Chairmen of the Standards Committees serving in their personal capacity, and the Singapore National Committee of the International Electrotechnical Commission.  Each term of the Standards Council is three years.  

The Standards Council appoints the Standards Committees (SCs) to be responsible for the standardisation programme in 9 industry sectors.  The SCs are responsible for establishing both product standards, codes of practice and management system standards.  The Standards Council structure is given in Annex A.  To ensure that the development of Singapore Standards takes into account the views of all relevant interest groups, each Standards Committee comprises representatives from government bodies, trade and manufacturing organisations, professional institutions, purchasers and users.  Under each Committee, the standardisation work is undertaken by Technical Committees (TCs) also consisting of representatives from industry, government and consumer groups.  The TCs may appoint Working Groups (WGs) under exceptional circumstances, where technical depth is needed for a specific standard to assist in drafting or reviewing partial or full standards [Singapore Standard (SS) and Technical Reference (TR)[1]], and monitoring of international standards as defined by the SC/TC whereby highly specialised expertise is needed.  The WG are technical experts coming from organisations that are key stakeholders from the industry, government and consumer groups in order to achieve the technical depth and breadth required for the particular standard. The terms of reference of the Standards Committee, Technical Committee and the Working Group are given in Annex B.  

Under this programme, the Standardisation Department also works with industry to develop various Singapore Standards for adoption and implementation to enhance productivity and competitiveness. So far, standards have been developed for products, systems and processes. Service standards such as that for the exhibition management service industry and cleaning standard for commercial premises have been developed. Technical References have also been developed in several areas that have an absence of reference standards or when consensus may be difficult to arrive at. In Singapore , compliance to Singapore Standards is voluntary. However, they become mandatory when used by government bodies in regulations or administrative requirements for safety, environmental and health issues.  All Singapore Standards are reviewed once every five years, on whether the standards should be confirmed, revised amended, archived or withdrawn. However if the need arises, the Singapore Standard may be reviewed before the maximum period to elapse. Requests for review of the standard may also come from the public, industry, academia or government.