NIST Handbook 143
State Weights and Measures Laboratories Program Handbook

Appendix A. List of NIST Services

Assistance Available from NIST

It is the objective of NIST to encourage all State laboratories to seek full recognition and formal accreditation. Technical assistance and consultation includes the following:

1. BASIC metrology training in mass, length, and volume (2-week seminar).
2. INTERMEDIATE metrology training in mass, length, and volume (1-week seminar).  Prerequisite - completion of BASIC course and BASIC LAP problems or equivalent.
3. NIST Precision Measurement Seminars.  Seminars on special measurement techniques (2 to 5 day duration). Examples - Precision Thermometry Seminar, Advanced Mass Seminar.
4. Recommended test procedures for:
1. mass tolerance testing
2. mass calibration weighing designs
3. volume calibration
       - volume transfer
       - gravimetric
4. length calibration
       - length bench
       - tape-to-tape
       - rigid rules
5. temperature - NBS Monograph 150
5. Time and frequency information - NBS Special Publications 432 and 559.
6. Measurement assurance information - NBSIR 77-1240.
7. NIST evaluation of laboratory auditing problems.
8. NIST evaluation of laboratory facilities by on-site visit.
9. Measurement control programs in selected measurement areas.

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