Nine National Standards for Furniture to Be Submitted

By the end of this year for approval by the State Committee for Standardization, Metrology and Patent of the projects will be presented nine standards for furniture industry. The decision was made yesterday on the plan concurrence with the Technical Committee for Standardization in Furniture Industry (TC 14).

The press service SCSMP told Turan, that the first plans to develop standards for the size of school furniture (tables and chairs), the safety requirements for children's beds, test different methods of qualitative indicators of office furniture, etc.

The standards include hygienic and functional parameters. Functional standards of furniture are based on anthropometric characteristics of man and are determined primarily by convenience furniture pieces by different people.

For hygienic standards for furniture are such rules, violation of which may affect the health of people. According to experts, it is critical hygienic standards in the design and manufacture of furniture for children, as it is the child's body, and in particular musculoskeletal child suffers most because of the use of incorrect designed furniture.

Chairman of TC 14 was appointed the director of sales management of sales of the Ideal Design Furniture Office and Embawood Company Azad Hemdullazadeh. The committee included representatives of the Ministries of Industry and Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources, Health, and the University of Architecture and Construction, the Public Unity for Quality Association and the Youth Association for Development of Retail. -08D-