Body Trains 60 Workers, Entrepreneurs On Standardisation

The National Board for Technology Incubation (NBTI) on Monday began an International Standardisation Organisation (ISO) training for workers and entrepreneurs from 36 centres and six zones under its Technology Incubation Programme.
The Tide source  reports that the participants were trained on ISO 9001:2015 which requires a quality management system where an organisation provides products and services that meet customer and applicable statutory, as well as regulatory requirements.
The NBTI’s overseeing Director-General (DG), Akinwumi Shomefun said that the training was part of efforts to actualise the national self-sufficiency, entrepreneurship and self-reliance agenda of the Federal Government.
Shomefun said the training was aimed at enhancing customer satisfaction through the effective application of the system and the assurance of conformity to customer and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements.
“It is important that we attain the cardinal goals of national self-reliance, entrepreneurship and self-sufficiency of President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.We are also committed to sustain and systematically prepare our staff and entrepreneurs to improve on their performances and outputs as civil servants and captains of industry,” he said.
Shomefun noted that capacity building was key to the survival of any organisation and reiterated the agency’s commitment to building capacities of its staff members at all levels and at all times.
He also noted that the body was committed to actualising its mandate of commercialisation of research and development findings, as well as updating indigenous technologies and talents via technology incubation centres.