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We can provide advice, testing and verification services for your weighing and measuring equipment.
If you weigh or measure goods, your equipment must be both suitable and accurate. This equipment must also be verified and stamped to say that it is suitable to be 'used for trade'.
North Yorkshire trading standards can assess the accuracy of, and verify for trade use, a variety of equipment and systems, including:
Inaccurate weighing and measuring equipment can cost businesses significant amounts every year. We can help you if:
We can help ensure that you're not losing out due to inaccurate equipment with our verification and testing services.
If you have new equipment, or equipment which has recently undergone a significant repair, then it may need to be re-verified in order to be passed as fit for use for trade. Our trading standards officers can provide this service at competitive rates, to help ensure your trade equipment is accurate and compliant.
We can offer advice and testing to help ensure you get the best out of your packing systems, however large or small, to give you the assurance that you are using equipment which is both suitable for the job and accurate.
For existing equipment, we can check the accuracy of a range of weighing and measuring equipment and provide you with a certificate confirming that it has been tested and found to be within legal tolerances.
Anyone who charges a fee for carrying out public weighing's (usually on a weighbridge) must hold a certificate showing they can carry out their duties competently and honestly. A certificate can be issued free of charge by a trading standards officer following a short test.
The person tested will have to show that they can:
Information about public weighbridges in North Yorkshire can be found here.
Read our weights and measure advice and guidance leaflets to get trading standards information on a wide range of weights and measures-related topics, including average quantities, delivery of oil and gas, sale of alcohol, weighing equipment and more.
For more information about the services we provide, or the applicable fees, please contact us.
Further information about weights and measures legislation can be found via the Business Companion website, which contains a number of advice leaflets on a range of metrology subjects.