Title: Learning Community: Calibration
Course: PW-Course-Import-Test > Section: Module 4: Sampling and Calibration

Module 4

Gas pumps at gas stations need to be calibrated in order to be used commercially to dispense gas. Some of you may have noticed a calibration sticker on a gas pump like the one shown below.

Calibration of the gas pump on a predetermined frequency ensures that the correct amount of gas is dispensed every time. The same is true with calibrating measuring equipment. Calibrating equipment ensures that the equipment measures accurately every time.

At your workplace can you think of any equipment that is calibrated? Does it have a calibration sticker? What information is provided on the sticker?

Write three or four sentence in response to the questions and post your answer below.

If you do not have calibrated equipment at your workplace or do not have access to that equipment, go to your nearest gas station and look for the calibration sticker on the gas pump. What does the calibration sticker say? When was the pump last calibrated?

Write three or four sentences in response to the questions and post your answer below.