"One company for which I worked purchased a copy of one of the safety standards for me - a single reader license. Unfortunately, when the PDF version was downloaded, it was marked on every page with the name of the person within the company's purchasing department who had actually placed the order. Strictly, only that person was allowed to read it, and I was not allowed to look at it."

Are there any open safety standards, or otherwise to compete with the iec/iso standards? If not why not.