by Christopher L. Grachanen
It is most gratifying to see a grass roots initiative spanning many years come to full fruition. Such is the case for U.S. Department of Labor’s formal recognition of calibration practitioners. Some may recall this initiative and the most excellent collaboration between the National Conference of Standards Laboratories International (NCSL International), the American Society for Quality (ASQ) Measurement Science Division (MQD) and the Measurement Science Conference (MSC) to solicit inclusion of calibration practitioners to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system which was successfully added to the SOC system in 2018. SOC updates are typically only performed once every ten years.
