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South African Bureau of Standards (SABS)

Mission statement
To provide standardisation services that improve the competitiveness of South Africa through the understanding, maintaining and development of standardisation product and services within South Africa and internationally.

Overview
The activities of the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) can be divided into Non-Commercial and Commercial. SABS is in the process of transforming itself from an inward looking organisation to one which is customer oriented, focussed on service and representative of the demographics of the region within which it operates. On the non-commercial side, the core business of the SABS is to:

Develop, maintain and disseminate standards;
Provide support for Regulatory services
Support Presidential imperatives
Provide research and development into standardisation, test methods and regulations
Encourage the design function through the Design Institute.

On the commercial side, the SABS offers:

Certification (of products, processes and a new registration scheme that has been introduced to assist the cultural accommodation sector to improve its standards)
Test House - testing for a wide range of commodities extending from Microbiological, through Chemical, Civil and Mechanical engineering, to Textiles. The protection of the consumer is a high consideration
NEFTA - testing of power distribution equipment
Coal and Minerals Technologies - testing of coal and other minerals
Global Conformity services - regional services covering the Western Cape, Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Namibia
Bathekgi Corporate Services - the provision of services such as Human Resources Management, Management Information Systems, Events Management
Eurotype Test Centre - equipped to perform vehicle exhaust emission testing to European, American and Japanese environmental standards, as well as all automotive related testing.

Chairperson	Professor S Vil-Nkomo
President & CEO	Mr M Kuscus
Enabling Act	Standards Act, 1993 (Act 29 of 1993)
Tel.	+27 (12) 428-7911
Fax.	+27 (12) 344-1568
Email	Info@sabs.co.za
Postal address	Private Bag X191, Pretoria, 0001
Website	www.sabs.co.za