OBS

OBS or obs. may refer to:

Organisations

 * Office of Boating Safety, the division of Transport Canada responsible for boating safety
 * Optus Broadband Satellite, a satellite broadband service offered by the Australian ISP Optus
 * Orange Belt Stages, a bus company based in California, US
 * Orange Business Services, a worldwide business communications company
 * Organization for Black Struggle, an activist organization in St. Louis, Missouri, US
 * Coop Obs!, a chain of hypermarkets in Norway, formerly known as Obs
 * Outward Bound School; See Outward Bound
 * Outward Bound Singapore, part of the network of Outward Bound centres
 * Océ Business Services, the outsourcing business of Océ
 * Oporto British School, a school in northern Portugal

Science and technology

 * Organic brain syndrome, a medical condition resulting from brain injury
 * Omnidirectional bearing selector, an aircraft navigation instrument; See VHF omnidirectional range
 * Obstetrics and gynaecology, commonly abbreviated Obs/Gyn
 * Ocean-bottom seismometer, a seismic tool to record earthquakes underwater
 * Old Body Style, a colloquial name for the fourth generation Chevrolet C/K /GMC Sierra pickup truck (GMT400) manufactured between 1988 and 2000

Computing

 * OBS Studio, an open source streaming and recording program
 * Open Build Service, a software distribution development platform
 * Optical burst switching, a switching technology in optical networks

Television, film, and music

 * One Buck Short, a punk-rock band from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
 * "Orange Blossom Special" (song), bluegrass song written by Ervin T. Rouse

Broadcasters

 * OBS (South Korean broadcaster), a broadcast television station based in Bucheon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
 * Oita Broadcasting System, a broadcasting station in Ōita Prefecture, Japan
 * Olympic Broadcasting Services, an organization responsible for the broadcast of the Olympic Games since 2010 Vancouver Winter Games

Publications

 * OBS! (magazine), Swedish business and political magazine
 * L'Obs, French news magazine
 * On Basilisk Station, the first novel in David Weber's Honor Harrington series

Business

 * Off-balance-sheet, financing activity not on the company's balance sheet
 * Organisation breakdown structure, a global hierarchy that represents the different levels of responsibility within a project or enterprise

Other uses

 * Operation Blue Star
 * Original British Standard, a bullhead rail profile