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prepare, promote and generally adopt standards on a national, regional or international basis, relating to structures, commodities, materials, articles, services and other things offered to the public commercially;
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establish and publish in the prescribed manner a standard in respect of any article, process or service;
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recognise as a standard in relation to an article, process, or service, any standard established by any other standards institution or body recognized by the Institution;
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promote standardisation, quality assurance and simplification in industry and commerce;
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facilitate the implementation of standards in Barbados;
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revise as may be necessary, any national standard process, practice or service;
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act as custodian of the national standards of mass, length, capacity, time, temperature and electrical measurements;
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certify those products, commodities, processes, services and quality systems that conform to the national standards;
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publish certification marks of any design containing such details as the Institution thinks fit, for the purpose of representing conformity to a particular standard;
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maintain testing laboratories, for the purpose of testing and examining commodities, products, materials, processes, practices and services and in so doing, to conduct such investigations or research as may be necessary;
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test precision instruments, gauges and scientific apparatus both for the purpose of determining their accuracy and calibration and the calibration of standards used in industrial and commercial activities;
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collect and disseminate information on standards and related technical matters; nationally, regionally and internationally;
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co-ordinate the efforts of producers and users of materials, products, appliances, processes methods and services for the improvement of those materials, products, appliances, processes, methods and services; and
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do such other things as may be necessary to provide for standardisation in Barbados.
