Act for review to make TBS serve public better

Act for review to make TBS serve public better

Fri May 22, 2015

The government has started to review some laws establishing the Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS) in order to enable the bureau to serve people more efficiently and timely.

 

 

 

This was said on Wednesday in Dar es Salaam by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry and Trade Mussa Uledi, when officiating at the commemoration of the World Metrology Day. The event was organised by the Standards body in collaboration with Weights and Measures Agency (WMA).

 

He said the government wants to see the bureau conducts its activities more efficiently using modern equipment.

 

 

 

“We have already started to amend the TBS Act, which would enable it to manage all issues relating to standards,” he said.

 

Tanzania Bureau of Standards was established under the Ministry of Industry and Trade by an Act of Parliament, the Standards Act No.3 of 1975 as the National Standards Institute and became operational in April 1976.

 

 

 

It was subsequently renamed Tanzania Bureau of Standards through an amendment to the Act by Act No.1 of 1977. The Standards Act No. 3 was later repealed and replaced by the Standards Act No. 2 of 2009, which gave the Bureau more powers in carrying out its mandate.

 

 

 

The PS further said, metrology plays a crucial role in life and development of human beings, hence more efforts are needed to make it help the society.

 

He urged the public and other government bodies to create a culture of checking standards of their equipment with TBS.

 

 

 

“The standard body has a major role to ensure that whatever we use has specified measurements or standards for the betterment of the consumers,” he said.

 

 

 

Citing he said: “Supposing you go to hospital for medical examination and you are wrongly told that your temperature is 40oC. This may means that the doctor will give you wrong prescriptions.

 

 

 

He insisted that in totality, wrong measurements have very negative effects.

 

“That is why we are compelled to sensitise the public in general and the industrialists in particular, on the importance of ensuring the use of right measurements,” he said.

 

 

 

The government’s decision to establish the TBS Metrology Laboratory as the Custodian of National Measurement Standards is part of its efforts to ensure that Tanzanians use appropriate measurements, he noted.

 

For his part, the Chairman of TBS board of Directors Prof. Cuthbert Mhilu, urged Tanzanians to apply metrology in their daily life.

 

 

 

The theme for World Metrology Day 2015 is ‘Measurements and Light’.

 

“The topic was chosen to align with the Unesco International Year of Light and Light-based technologies 2015 (IYL 2015), a global initiative designed to highlight the key role light and optical technologies play in the people’s daily life and their importance for our future and for the sustainable development of the society we live in,” he said.

 

 

 

Metrology plays a central role in enabling the application of light-based technologies, and in turn, light is at the heart of many of the most important new elements of leading-edge measurement technologies.

 

 

 

World Metrology Day is an annual celebration of the signatories of seventeen nations of the Metre Convention on 20 May 1875. The Convention set the framework for global collaboration in the science of measurement and in its industrial, commercial and societal applications.

 

 

 

The Metre Convention advocates for adherence to the International System of Units (SI units).

 

 

 

Tanzania is already determined to use SI units and the Tanzania Bureau of Standards’ Metrology Laboratory is the Custodian of National Measurement Standards.

 

 

 

The establishment of the Custodian of National Measurement Standards aims at ensuring accuracy and traceability of all measurements in the country.

SOURCE: IPPMEDIA

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