TANZANIA BUREAU OF STANDARDS

Historical Background
Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS) is the national standards body for Tanzania established by the government as part of the efforts to strengthen the supportive infrastructure for industry and commerce sectors across the economy within the country. The Bureau was established by Parliamentary Act No. 3 of 1975 as the National Standards Institute and became operational on 16th April 1976. Subsequently, it was renamed Tanzania Bureau of Standards under Act No. 1 of 1977. On 20th March 2009, the Standards Act No. 3 of 1975 was repealed and replaced by the Standards Act No. 2 of 2009.

The Bureau was established as part of the efforts by the government to strengthen the supporting institutional infrastructure for the industry and commerce sectors of the economy. Specifically, TBS was mandated to undertake measures for quality control of products of all descriptions and to promote standardization in industry and commerce.

Vision
"Sustainable standardization for high quality livelihood society".

Mission
“To promote standardization , safety and quality assurance in industry and commerce through standards development, certification, registration, inspection, testing and metrology services for sustainable socio-economic development”.

Core Values
Integrity
We ensure continuous and consistent provision of services with high degree of honesty and impartiality by adhering moral and ethical principles and values.

Customer Focus
We prioritize customers' needs first therefore committed to responding timely and proactively to their expectations.

Team work
We work together by sharing experiences while respecting each other to realize institutional goals.

Accountability
We shall be responsible to our actions, decisions and outcomes in executing our functions.

Transparency
We ensure open sharing of information and proper provision of feedback to our stakeholders in equal treatment.

Quality Policy
Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS) endeavours, as mandated, to deliver quality products and services on standardization, safety management, conformity assessment and metrology by meeting legal and customers’ requirements and even exceeding customers’ expectations so as to retain their loyalty. TBS provides resources and continually improves her processes to ensure that employees are capable of timely and consistently providing quality products and services.