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Question: Why Malaysian Standards are important?

Answer: Reference to Malaysian Standards brings immense benefits to all stakeholders in achieving:

1. Consumer protection and public welfare
2. Standards provide a basis for legislation for controlling quality, protecting consumers, and ensuring health and safety
3. Standards ensure the fitness for the intended purpose of products and services
4. Standards specify the minimum requirements of quality, health and safety including areas involving the environment and occupational safety, reliability, and quality to consumers
5. Standards ensure compatibility, interchangeability, and interoperability to benefit consumers. As consensus documents, standards reflect the requirements at national and international levels.
6. Industrial efficiency and development
7. Terminology and symbol standards help in better understanding
8. Product standards help ensuring good design and improvement in quality of product
9. Product standards encourage economic efficiency through variety rationalization and interchangeability of components, materials, and practices
10. Process standards provide the means for improving manufacturing processes
11. Codes of practice establish good practices in all fields of installation, construction, etc.
12. Testing standards set recognized level of repeatability and reproducibility
13. Standards being a rich source of current technologies can act as vehicles for technology transfer
14. Standards promote better understanding between the purchaser and seller and provide solutions to recurring problems
15. Standards facilitate communications
16. Use of standards provide the essential key to organize industrial development
17. Use of standards lead to direct and indirect economic benefits
18. Standards help in import substitution and export promotion

(Source: Department of Standards Malaysia, 02 May 2025)

Source Link: https://mysol.jsm.gov.my/