By Standard: the IICRC, LEAN, OSHA, EPA and state library

What the By Standard tab shows

An SOP is your own documented procedure. A standard is somebody else's, the industry frameworks that exist whether or not you have written a step for them: IICRC's S500/S520/S540 water, mold, and reconstruction guidance, LEAN process principles, OSHA safety rules, EPA requirements (lead-safe work practices, mold remediation guidance), and your state's own regulations. By Standard is the searchable library of those reference standards, scoped to the frameworks and jurisdiction that actually apply to you, with a one-click way to turn any of them into a working draft SOP.

Verinode does not tell you which standard to follow or file anything on your behalf. It reads the reference catalog, scopes it to your state, and gives you a button that scaffolds the paperwork. You decide whether to adopt it, and you refine and activate the draft yourself.

Where to find it

Open Processes from the sidebar at /processes. The page opens as a card slider with six tabs across the top: Findings, Flow, All Processes, By Standard, Coverage, Benchmarks. By Standard is the fourth tab.

What populates the library

Every row in By Standard comes from Verinode's reference catalog of process research benchmarks, the same body of standards work that seeds the LEAN scoring engine elsewhere in Processes. Two things scope what you see:

• Framework: which body wrote it, IICRC, LEAN, OSHA, EPA, or a state regulator.
• Jurisdiction: who it applies to, global (applies everywhere), federal (OSHA, EPA), or a specific state.

You always see the global and federal standards. State-specific regulations only appear once Verinode knows your state, set under Settings → Profile. Until then, the State group has nothing to show you and says so (see the empty states below).

The search bar

At the top of the tab: "Search standards by name, framework, category, or jurisdiction…". It searches across the standard's name, its framework, its service-line category (water, fire, mold, reconstruction, contents, general), its jurisdiction, and its description, all at once, no separate filters to set first. Type "mold" and you will match a mold-category IICRC reference and an EPA mold guidance document in the same pass, whichever framework pill is selected.

The framework pills

Below the search bar, six pills:

| Pill | What it matches | |---|---| | All | Every standard in scope, the default view | | IICRC | Standards issued by the IICRC (S500, S520, S540, and related) | | LEAN | LEAN process-efficiency standards | | OSHA | OSHA safety standards | | EPA | EPA environmental standards | | State | Any standard scoped to a specific state rather than global or federal |

Each pill carries a live count in parentheses, for example "IICRC (6)", so you can see at a glance how deep each framework's catalog runs before you click in. Selecting a pill narrows the list to that framework; the search bar still applies inside it.

When State is selected and Verinode already knows your state, a line to the right of the pills reads "Showing [Your State] regs only", confirming the scope so you are not left guessing whether you are looking at your state's rules or someone else's.

Reading a standard row

Each row shows:

• Name: the standard's title (its source_standard, e.g. "IICRC S500 Water Damage Restoration"), or if none is on file, the framework and category, for example "IICRC reference."
• Kind label, category, and a short excerpt: underneath the name, "Standards" (the fixed kind label for every row in this tab) followed by its service-line category and the first stretch of its description, dot-separated, for example "Standards · Water Mitigation · Category S500 covers water damage restoration procedures including..."
• Time marker: on the right edge, how long the standard has been in the catalog (just now, a number of minutes/hours/days ago, or a date once it is more than a week old). This tracks when the reference itself was added to Verinode's catalog, not anything about your account.
• A colored dot: a steel-blue marker (the same accent used for Standards throughout Processes) distinguishing this row's kind from an SOP or a Pending Confirmation if you ever see them side by side elsewhere in the section.

The Adopt button

Every row carries an Adopt button on its right edge. Click it and Verinode:

1. Copies the standard's steps, framework, and service-line category into a brand-new entry in your own SOP library.
2. Saves it with status draft and titles it after the source standard with "(draft)" appended, for example "IICRC S500 Water Damage Restoration (draft)". If the standard has no name on file, it titles the draft from the framework and category instead, for example "IICRC water SOP (draft)."
3. Sets the draft's work type to apply to both residential and commercial jobs, so an adopted standard is not accidentally restricted to one before you have had a chance to narrow it.
4. Keeps a quiet back-reference to the source standard, so the draft's detail view can always show you where it came from.
5. Kicks off LEAN scoring on the new draft in the background, the same scoring pass every SOP gets.

While it runs, the button reads "Adopting…" and is disabled. On success, a confirmation appears: "Draft SOP created. Open the All tab to refine the steps and activate." The button stays clickable, so adopting the same standard twice is allowed if you want a second starting point.

If something goes wrong, for example the standard's category does not map cleanly to one of your SOP categories, you will see an error toast rather than a silent failure, and no draft is created.

Empty states

By Standard has three distinct empty messages, all rendered exactly as written below:

• No matches for your search inside the selected framework: No standards match "[your search]" in [Framework]. Try clearing the search or switching pills.
• Nothing in scope for a framework yet: No [Framework] references in scope yet. This means the catalog currently has no standards tagged to that framework and jurisdiction combination, not that your search was wrong.
• State pill with no state on file: on top of the message above, an additional line appears: Add your state in Settings → Profile to see jurisdiction-specific regs. Until your state is set, Verinode has no basis for showing you state-specific regulations, so the State pill's count stays at zero.

How this fits with the rest of Processes

By Standard is the reference library; the rest of the Processes section is where the standards actually turn into work:

• All Processes is where an adopted draft lives once it exists, alongside your own hand-built SOPs and any Network SOP shared from your HQ group. Filter to My SOPs to find what you have adopted.
• Coverage shows which service lines still have no active SOP behind them at all, a useful companion view for deciding which standard to adopt next.
• Benchmarks is where an active SOP's structure gets compared against the anonymized shape of peer SOPs in the same category and work type, once enough contributing operators exist in that cohort. That is a separate, peer-driven signal from the standards library, which draws only on published external frameworks, never on other operators' data.

See Coverage: the compliance and service-line matrix and All Processes: your SOP and standards library for those views, and How benchmarks work for the general logic behind peer comparisons across the platform.

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