It is not unusual for airline passengers checking in at the flight counter to place their over-packed suitcase onto the baggage scale and hope that it is within the permissible limit, thus being spared from overweight baggage fees. However, if passengers are being charged for excess weight,...
Metrology
Historic Vote Ties Kilogram and Other Units to Natural Constants
Versailles, France—A convocation of delegates representing 60 countries voted today, 16th November 2018 in Versailles to implement the most significant change to the International System of Units (SI) in more than 130 years. For the first time, all measurement units will be defined by natural phenomena...
Trinidad & Tobago Bureau of Standards enforces the Metrology Act No.18 of 2004
All prescribed measuring devices used for trade such as supermarket scales, fuel dispensers and weigh bridges need to be monitored by the Legal Metrology Inspectorate (LMI)....
T&T Ambassador to Washington DC congratulates TTBS on its achievement
Mrs Erica Caruth and Ms Saira Knox of the Metrology Division, Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards, attended The Student and Professional Organization of Trinidad and Tobago (The SPOTT) social event held at Ben’s Next Door on Friday 28th September 2018 in Washington DC. Upon learning that...
Press Release: Enforcement of the Metrology Act No.18 of 2004
TTBS wishes to advise owners of prescribed measuring devices used for trade in the FUEL and COURIER sectors to have their devices verified by the 22nd October 2018. ...
TTBS participates in the 2018 SIM Workshop Metrology of Mycotoxins
Saira Knox of the Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards (TTBS), Metrology Division, participated in a recent workshop held at the Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Industrial (INTI) in Argentina on September 16th – 18th 2018. The aim of the workshop was to update participants on the background...
First “Certificate of Approval of Quality Management System” for CARICOM Signatories to the CIPM-MRA
TTBS, Metrology Division is pleased to announce that its Quality Management System ISO/IEC 17025 supporting mass and related quantities was approved by the Inter-American Metrology Systems (SIM) on September 24th 2018 at the SIM-General Assembly week of activities. This approval recognizes Trinidad and Tobago as the first...
Metrology SIM Assessment
The Metrology Division at The Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards (TTBS) is “On the Road” to have its best “Calibration and Measurement Capability (CMC)” for the discipline of mass approved and recognized on the BIPM-Key Comparison Database. The ability to report our best measurement capability on...
TTBS Acts to Ensure Value for Money at Gas Stations on June 5, 2018
June 5, 2018:- Consumers can now ensure they are getting value for money at the nation’s pumps with the commencement of fuel verification exercises by the Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards (TTBS) a statutory agency under the purview of the Ministry of Trade and Industry. The...