Standards

This standard specifies the requirements for registration, assessment, grading and licensing of hotels and guesthouses. This standard will ensure effective management of hotels and guesthouses.

This standard specifies the requirements for the monitoring and management of hotels, apartments and guesthouses.

This Code of Practice specifies managerial requirements necessary to ensure the efficient operation of any restaurant establishment which seeks to provide customer satisfaction. This standard does not apply to institutional food services, such as school feeding programmes and food caravans.

This Code of Practice specifies managerial requirements necessary to ensure the efficient running of any restaurant establishment which seeks to ensure quality in the sight of its customers. With the application of this standard the following is expected: (a) that management of a restaurant shall be made aware of their responsibilities with regard to efficient practices in the restaurant service; (b) that customer satisfaction shall be made the ultimate goal in such an establishment; (c) high productivity for the restaurant service; and (d) that the service shall be made more competitive at local and international levels. This standard does not apply to institutional food services, such as school feeding programmed; and to food vans or vendors, in which food is sold from a vehicle or carts on the road side.

This Code of Practice specifies acceptable practices to be used by tour operators and tour guides. It is intended to be used as a quality tool by tour guides and tour operators; present and prospective members of tour parties; and the relevant authorities and agencies responsible for tourism in Guyana. This Code of Practice does not specify the criteria necessary to obtain registration as a Guyana tour operator or license as a Guyana tour guide, as provided for in the laws of the Republic of Guyana.

Prescribes the requirements for metric capacity measures of cylindrical and conical shapes. It is intended for use by manufacturers in manufacturing Metric Capacity Measures thus ensuring all measures of a specified type and capacity will have the same dimensions. These measures are intended for use in normal commercial transactions and are for use in measuring liquids only. 7p. (Price Code B)

This standard specifies inter alia conversion factors to be used in converting quantities measured in Imperial to SI and other units. It sets out procedures for the uniform use for these conversion factors. It is intended for use in everyday operations in government commerce, industry, education certain branches of technology and sport.

This International Standard gives specifications for the angular coordinate system to be used in the design of scales, reticles or other display means incorporated in instruments for determining optical data on human eyes or corrective lenses for human eyes.

This Standard specifies the requirements and the materials used in the manufacturing of scales and masses.

This Recommendation specifies

·    legal metrology requirements for prepackaged products (also called prepackaged commodities or prepackaged goods) labeled in predetermined constant nominal quantities of mass, volume, linear measure, area, or count, and

·         sampling plans and procedures for use by legal metrology officials in verifying the quantity of product in prepackages.

NOTE:  The sampling plans are not recommended for use in the quantity control processes of the packer.