The Testing Infrastructure in any economy is the fundamental point of upholding final quality checks of any Conformity Assessment Scheme Value Chain, the Executive Manager for Accreditation Division Mr Christopher Mosoro said.

“PNG as a sovereign nation is no exception to this fact of the matter,” he added.

“The PNG Laboratory Accreditation Scheme (PNGLAS), under NISIT, has seen a lot of struggles in testing laboratories trying to comply to ISO/IEC 17025:2017 standard to be accredited as competent testing and calibration laboratories to produce reliable test results.

“It is a concern to see Public Testing Laboratories, where majority of MSME, government and public rely on, having a downward trend and are not able to produce a trusted Statement of Conformity on their testing materials due to of lack of accreditation.

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Papua New Guinea has experienced a decline in Accredited Testing Laboratories over the last three years (2020 – 2022), the National Institute of Standards, and Industrial Technology (NISIT) acting Director-General of Mr Victor Gabi said in a media statement.

“Construction materials testing, chemical testing, food and microbiology testing, assay testing for precious metals, environmental testing, calibration laboratories have been the main laboratories that have, over the years, obtained and maintained accreditation to (International Organisation of Standards (ISO)/ International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 17025 Management of Testing and Calibration Laboratories.

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Metrology staff explaining to students about the measuring equipment in the laboratories at NISIT.

LA SALLE TECHNICAL COLLEGE STUDENTS’ VISIT METROLOGY LABORATORIES

FORTY-EIGHT Grade 11 pioneer students from La Salle Technical College in Port    Moresby have visited the Papua New Guinea National Institute of Standard and  Industrial Technology (NISIT) Metrology Division, on the 16th of March, to learn about  Measurement. 

Since the students were learning about Measuring Instruments and Minimizing Errors in their Physics class at school, their teacher Br. Francis ToLiman arranged for a trip to visit NISIT’s Metrology Division.  

The Division happily hosted the event that day with Executive Manager Mr. Joe Panga welcoming the students and giving an overview of roles and responsibilities of NISIT and Metrology. 

The students visited the 8 Measurement Standards Laboratories: the Flow and Capacity Lab, Legal Metrology Lab, Force Lab, Temperature Lab, Mass and Balance Lab, Pressure Lab, Length Lab, and Time and Frequency Lab/ Electrical Lab. 

During the tour, a metrologist (Metrology staff) was stationed in each laboratory and took the students through: 

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Mr. Victor Gabi

DOSIMETRY LABORATORY CONSTRUCTION IN COMMENCE

Port Moresby - IT has been a long wait for the National Institute of standard and Industrial Technology (NISIT) since it signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the University of Technology to build a Dosimetry Laboratory.

This laboratory will be a subsidiary of NISIT and University of Technology with a 60 per cent to 40 per cent ownership respectively.

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