WORKSHOP FOR TDI POLY STUDENTS ON STANDARDS (PAGE 29)

THE Ghana Standards Board has organised a day’s workshop on National Quality Infrastructure for the students of the Takoradi Polytechnic to enable them to appreciate the importance of standards.
The workshop formed part of an educational campaign for all tertiary institutions in the country on the need to apply standards in every sector of the economy.
The students were taken through such topics as “Standards and national development”, ‘’Relevance of metrology for socio-economic development” and ‘’Consumer protection’’.
Briefing the press before the workshop, the Chief Standard Officer in charge of Marketing and Public Relations, Mr Charles Amoako, explained that the board orgainsed the workshop to broaden the outlook of the students of the institution.
He further explained that the Ghana Standards Board had to assemble all stakeholders and related organisations which are involved in a particular sector of the economy to harmonise their standards to be able to penetrate into the international market.
“We do not regulate products on the markets. We set the standards for all categories of products on the market, ” Mr Amoako said.
The Head of Quality Systems Certification Department, Mr Fred Owusu-Gyamera, said standardisation was the foundation for national development and growth.
He stressed that no country had been able to develop without standardisation, adding that “standardisation is a common language for development”.
Mr Owusu-Gyamera also emphasised the need to inculcate the culture of standardisation in the students since they formed middle level manpower.