# Presentation: 164078

## www.abnt.org.br

**www.abnt.org.br**

-     February, 2008                                                                                               Director of Development and  Information

**GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES AND STRATEGIES FOR EDUCATION ABOUT STANDARDIZATION**
**- NIST -**
- Gaithersburg, 21 and 22/02/2008

## Who is  ABNT?

-     February, 2008                                                                                               Director of Development and  Information

- Created in 1940 – more than 67 years of expertise on standardization
- Private, non-profit organization
- Officially recognized by the Brazilian Government as the National Standardization Body
- Founding member of ISO, as well as COPANT and AMN
- IEC member since ABNT’s establishment
- Responsible for the development of the Brazilian National Standards (voluntary and consensus-based)
- Signatory of the WTO/TBT Agreement – Code of Good Practices for Standardization

**Who is  ABNT?**

**Brasília**

**Bahia**

**Minas Gerais**

**São Paulo**

**Rio de Janeiro**

**Paraná**

**Rio Grande do Sul**

## ABNT – Objectives

**Management of Brazilian standards’ development process**
**Promotion, dissemination and divulgation of standardization**
**Representation of Brazil at Regional and International Organizations for Standardization**
**Cooperation with similar organizations**
**Certification of products, services and systems **

**ABNT – Objectives**

## Brazilian Standardization System

- CONMETRO

- CBN

- ABNT

- Regulation Bodies

- TECHNICAL  REGULATION

- BRAZILIAN
- STANDARDS

- CBN: standardization promotion, articulation between governmental and civil society interests

- INMETRO: responsible for the Executive Secretariat of CONMETRO and compatibilization of governmental interest (Government => Technical Regulations: Health, Safety, Environment and Consumers Protection)

- ABNT: The National Standards Body - Private => Voluntary Standards => all sectors

**Brazilian Standardization System**

-     February, 2008                                                                                               Director of Development and  Information

##  ABNT in figures

-     February, 2008                                                                                               Director of Development and  Information

##  ABNT – Technical Committees

-     February, 2008                                                                                               Director of Development and  Information

**CB-01 - Mining  and Metallurgy****	****	****CB-14 – Information and Documentation**
**CB-02 - Civil Construction****	****	****CB-15 - Furniture**
**CB-03 - Electricity ****	****	****	****CB-16 - Transportation and Traffic**
**CB-04 - Machines and Mech. Equip. ****	****CB-17 - Textiles**
**CB-05 - Automotive ****	****	****	****CB-18 - Cement and Concrete**
**CB-06 - Subway and Railroad ****	****	****CB-19 - Refractory**
**CB-07 - Ship. and Marine Tech.  ****	****CB-20 - Nuclear Energy**
**CB-08 - Aeronautics and Space****	****	****CB-21 - Computer and Data Processing **
**CB-09 - Fuels****	****	**** ****	****	****CB-22 - Thermal Insulation**
**CB-10 - Chemistry ****	****	****	****CB-23 - Packaging**
**CB-11 - Shoes and Leather ****	****	****CB-24 - Fire Safety**
**CB-12 - Agriculture ****	****	****             CB-25 - Quality**
**CB-13 – Beverages****	****	****	****CB- 26 - Odontolog.-Medical-Clinical Equip.**

##  ABNT – Technical Committees

-     February, 2008                                                                                               Director of Development and  Information

**ONS-27 - Graphic Technology **
**CB- 28 - Steel **
**CB-29 – Pulp and Paper  **
**CB-30 - Alimentary Technology**
**CB-31 – Wood**
**CB-32 ****- Individual Protection Equip.**
**CB-33 - Jew., Gems and Prec. Metals**
**ONS-34 – Petroleum**
**CB-35 - Aluminum **
**CB-36 - Clinical Analysis and Diagnostic *****in Vitro ***
**CB-37 - Glasses ****	**
**CB-38 - Environmental Management **
**CB-39 - Road Implements**
**CB-40 - Accessibility **
**CB-41 - Iron Ores**
**CB-42 - Welding**
**	**

**CB-43 – Corrosion**
**CB-44 – Cooper**
**CB-45 – Tires**
**CB-46 - Clean rooms**
**CB-47 - Crisotile Asbestos**
**CB-48 - Road Machinery**
**CB-49 - Optic and Optical Instruments**
**CB-50 - Offshore Equipment for the natural gas industry**
**ONS-51- Plastic Packaging and arrangement**
**CB-52 - Coffee**
**CB-53 - Standardization in Metrology**
**CB-54 - Tourism**
**CB-55 - Air Conditioning**
**CB-56 - Meat and Milk**
**CB-57 - Refrigeration, Air conditioning, Ventilation and heating**
**ONS-58 – Non destructive testing**
**CB-59 - Foundry**

## Perspectives and Strategies for Education about Standardization - Brazil

** ****Increase Awareness**
**ABNT promoted and take part of several events and sectorial fairs due to spread the understanting of standardization.**

-     February, 2008                                                                                               Director of Development and  Information

**Perspectives and Strategies for Education about Standardization - Brazil**

|  | 2007 | 2008 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Number of events | 38 | 42 |
| Participants | 2644 | 3000 |

**Events                                                                 Fair **

|  | 2007 | 2008 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Business Fair | 43 | 45 |
| Participants | 1625 | 2000 |

## Perspectives and Strategies for Education about Standardization - Brazil

**October,  29th to 31st, 2007**
**EXPOSITION**
**Covering a indoor area of 1100 m2 with 31 stands from different associations who work as ABNT TC secretaries, showing various products made accordable with technical standards. **
**CONGRESS**
**500 participants discussing standardization, metrology and conformity assessment  during two days.**
**PARALLEL EVENTS**
**Speechers from working groups of TC’s**
**Meeting between ABNT/TCs chairs**
**Technical Presentations**
**Standards First day**
**Inmetro’s meeting**
**RESULTS:**
**1800 people in all event**

-     February, 2008                                                                                               Director of Development and  Information

**Perspectives and Strategies for Education about Standardization - Brazil**

## Perspectives and Strategies for Education about Standardization - Brazil

| Year | 2006 | 2007 | Growth % | 2008 | Growth % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Number of courses | 53 | 78 | 47% | 140 | 79% |
| Available Titles | 17 | 31 | 82% | 40 | 29% |
| Realized Titles | 13 | 19 | 46% | 30 | 58% |
| Number of participants | 611 | 921 | 51% | 1600 | 73% |

**ABNT – Strategies**
** ****Capacity Building**

**Perspectives and Strategies for Education about Standardization - Brazil**

## Perspectives and Strategies for Education about Standardization - Brazil

**Quality management systems **
**Environmental management systems **
**Greenhouse gases **
**Information and documentation **
**Occupational  Health and Safety**
**Food safety management systems **
**Identification for transportation, handling, movement and storage of materials **
**Information technology **
**Security techniques - Information security management systems **
**Acessibility to buildings, equipament and the urban environment **
**Social responsibility **
**Textiles - Care labelling code using symbols **
**Rainwater - Catchment of roofs in urban areas for non-potable purposes **
**Telecommunications cabling for commercial buildings **

-     February, 2008                                                                                               Director of Development and  Information

**Perspectives and Strategies for Education about Standardization - Brazil**

## Perspectives and Strategies for Education about Standardization - Brazil

** ****Education for Standartization**
**Research found 2 courses about standardization:**
** ****Federal Technological Education Mastership (CEFET-MG)**
** ****Standardization technology and industrial quality – created in 1995, it’s a course with 2415 hours during 4 years, that offers 35 place per each six consecutive months. Broaches since guidelines to standardization process until management integrated systems planning and implementation (quality, ambiental, security and health  ocupational, and social responsability).**
** ****National Service of Industrial Learning (SENAI - SC)**
**Standardization basic course – Professional qualification that aims to orient about standards elaboration process, with 10 hour classes.**

-     February, 2008                                                                                               Director of Development and  Information

**Perspectives and Strategies for Education about Standardization - Brazil**

## Perspectives and Strategies for Education about Standardization - Brazil

** ****Education for Standartization**** **
** ****Since 2002, ABNT with a partnership jointine SENAI and Brazilian Goverment, who invested U$700,000, a new program to human resources empowerment was made.**
** ****Purpose: increase the companies involvement on standardization effords, mainly small bussiness, and strutured a qualification program, using firsty pilot courses experiences as basis.**
** ****Result expected: **
** ****Use technical standards to lead their activities;**
** ****Work out in new standards development;**
** ****Spread standardization process and technical standards matters.**

-     February, 2008                                                                                               Director of Development and  Information

**Perspectives and Strategies for Education about Standardization - Brazil**

## Perspectives and Strategies for Education about Standardization - Brazil

_**Module 1 **_
**24 h**
**Basic Industrial Technology**
**6 h**
**Basic notions on  Standardization**
**6h**
**Basic notions of  metrology**
**6h**
**Basic notions of conformity assessment**
**6h**

_**Module 2 **_
**15 h**
**Principles to technical standards structure**
**15 h**

_**Module 3**_** **
**21 h**
**Technical sntandards writing and presentation**
**21 h**

**Professional  certificate**

**     ****Course Plan – 60 hours**

**Perspectives and Strategies for Education about Standardization - Brazil**

**Main aspects:**
**Developed with didatic support and validation of the material;**
**Experimental course for 19 persons;**
**One movie used like a sensibilization tool;**
**Sensibilization workshop;**
**Feasibility  study about a postgraduation courses;**
**Development of technical multiplyers ;**
**Business plan elaboration until  June, 2008.**

-     February, 2008                                                                                               Director of Development and  Information

**Perspectives and Strategies for Education about Standardization - Brazil**

## Perspectives and Strategies for Education about Standardization - Brazil

**Facilitate the acess to standards leads people to a bigger demand of standards knowledge (SEBRAE and CONFEA); **
**There’s a great challenge to increase awareness;**
**Our proposition is pioneer in Brazil and the methodology used in this development with the implantation plan could contribute significantly to standardization education.**

-     February, 2008                                                                                               Director of Development and  Information

**Perspectives and Strategies for Education about Standardization - Brazil**

**THANK YOU!**
**Carlos Santos Amorim Junior**
**E-mail: csamorim@abnt.org.br**

-     February, 2008                                                                                               Director of Development and  Information

**Perspectives and Strategies for Education about Standardization - Brazil**