The national standards setting and regulatory body, Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution, is going to formulate 17 safety standards to prevent accidents in gas cooking used in households.
BSTI director general SM Ferdous Alam gave this information as chief guest at a day-long workshop titled Safety Standards for Domestic Gas Cooking Appliances held at Hotel Sonargaon in the capital on Tuesday, said a press release.
Country director of Asian Development Bank, Hoe Yun Jeong, and planning director of Petrobangla Abdul Mannan Patwary were present as special guests at the event, which was jointly organised by BSTI, Petrobangla and ADB.
Management director of BSTI Md Saidul Islam delivered welcome speech at the event.
Citing various gas leakage fire tragic accidents, including the death of a young couple in Mirpur due to gas cooking at the end of last year, The BSTI DG said that a major reason for accidents in household gas cooking was lack of awareness about safety cooking appliances. 鈥楢lthough it is late but BSTI is going to formulate such safety standards.鈥�
鈥業nitiatives have been taken to formulate these standards in line with international standards. The standards have already been approved by BSTI鈥檚 technical committee. After approval by the higher committee, BSTI will work on the obligation to implement it,鈥� he added.
He said that if the mentioned safety standard was implemented, it would be possible to prevent such tragic accidents.聽
BSTI deputy director for engineering Md Mursalin Mahfuz presented the keynote paper in the technical session.
