During a workshop in the Asharqia Chamber
Standardization: Legal standardization helps facilitate international trade in alignment with international standards
Asharqia Chamber represented by the Commercial Committee held a workshop that reviewed the subject of legal calibration services "standardization" for manufacturers, importers, and users of measuring devices, on Monday evening February 1, 2021.
In the remote workshop, Eng. Awas Al-Qurashi - Senior Metrological Engineer - from the Saudi Organization for Standardization, Metrology, and Quality spoke about calibration, which has become a part of most aspects of daily commercial, economic, industrial, environmental, and health life, through the uses of various devices and measuring tools in these Domains and critical and important decision-making based on the measurement results shown by these devices and tools.
Al-Qurashi explained during the workshop moderated by a member of the Commercial Committee, Muhammad Al-Majdouie, that the legal calibration is part of the calibration related to measurement units, methods, and devices, to the technical and legal requirements binding to ensure public protection, in terms of safety and appropriate measurement accuracy, indicating its importance which is accurate reading Legal measuring devices and their compliance with international specifications and recommendations, facilitating international trade in conformity with international standards, and having a neutral party to ensure the accuracy of the readings, and also achieve the required justice.
Al-Qurashi said that the National Standardization and Calibration Program "Taqyis" is one of the initiatives of the Saudi Organization for Standardization, Metrology, and Quality within the National Transformation Program 2020, which aims to match the legal measurement tools with the standard specifications to ensure the correctness of the sold quantities by conducting technical checks and field verification, such as fuel pumps and commercial scales, electricity and water meters.
For his part, Engineer Abdulaziz Al-Jaber - a senior metrological engineer - drew attention to the measured commercial transactions, namely the sale and purchase of goods and services that need a measurement process to determine their value, and he also indicated that legal standards are applied to devices used in commercial transactions, such as electricity and gas meters, water meters, scales, and pumps fuel, to protect the seller and the buyer.
Al-Jaber explained that the owners of the facilities must submit a request for periodic or initial verification of measuring devices used in commercial exchanges and that the device has an acceptable label, and also make sure that it has obtained a national model approval certificate in addition to the initial verification sticker, and finally, that the label on measuring device.
