Standardization News

Trip Includes Events and Meetings in Guyana and Trinidad

ASTM International recently participated in a "train-the-trainer" event held in Georgetown, Guyana, in collaboration with the CARICOM Regional Organization for Standards and Quality. CROSQ's Technical Management Committee event included information on ASTM's standards development processes, use of electronic tools and appropriate ways to reference ASTM International standards in regulation. Participants in the event will now be able to share information learned with the national standards bodies of their countries. Twenty-one participants from seven countries participated in the event. ASTM staff member James Olshefsky, director of external relations, aided in facilitating a daylong regional event and provided information on ASTM's standards development process.

While in Guyana, Olshefsky met with officials at the Guyana National Bureau of Standards. Discussions with GNBS included review of a draft memorandum of understanding and current GNBS standardization activities.

Following the events in Guyana, Olshefsky met with staff at the Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards, with whom ASTM has had a memorandum of understanding since 2002. This visit included a tour of the TTBS laboratory facilities and a presentation on ASTM to TTBS staff. Also discussed was an upcoming intensive training program in which three to five experts from TTBS are attending the November 2011 meetings of ASTM Committee A01 on Steel, Stainless Steel and Related Alloys.

James Olshefsky (left), ASTM International, and Errol Rampaul, Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards.

From left to right: Joyann Fanfair, Guyana National Bureau of Standards; James Olshefsky, ASTM International; Candelle Walcott-Bostwick, GNBS; and Ramrattie Karan, GNBS.