--- title: "Making life safer and less uncertain – for 8 billion people" description: "Our world is becoming an increasingly crowded and busy place. How can we ensure the world is as safe, equitable, and predictable as possible?" image: "https://www.beamex.com/app/uploads/2023/02/shutterstock-1435893959-scaled.jpg" url: "https://www.beamex.com/about-us/press-releases/making-life-safer-and-less-uncertain-for-8-billion-people/" language: "en-GB" modified: "2023-07-03T11:36:12+00:00" --- # Making life safer and less uncertain – for 8 billion people [Home](https://www.beamex.com/) » [Press releases](https://www.beamex.com/about-us/press-releases/) » Making life safer and less uncertain – for 8 billion people June 2023 ### Making life safer and less uncertain – for 8 billion people Our world is becoming an increasingly crowded and busy place. The global population has almost tripled since the 1950s, with 8 billion people now calling Earth home – a figure that’s set to grow to 10 billion by 2050 if we continue at current rates. How can we ensure the world is as safe, equitable, and predictable as possible? Accurate measurements – and the calibration processes that underpin them – hold many of the answers. We have accurate measurements to thank for our medicine and food being safe, and for the products we rely on in our daily lives working how we expect them to. Accurate measurements also allow us to improve sustainability and accelerate the transition to a healthier planet, enabling process optimization, supporting the circular economy, and ensuring harmful emissions and waste are monitored and ultimately reduced. Calibration is the foundation on which accurate measurements are built. It essential to ensuring measurements are not only accurate, but also trustworthy and repeatable. Calibration helps to improve efficiency, compliance, traceability, and safety, while minimizing emissions, waste, and risk. > Beamex has been a leading provider of calibration solutions for over 40 years,” explains Mona-Lisa Grannas, Marketing Director, Beamex. “Our goal is to make the world a safer and less uncertain place by ensuring measurements can be trusted, wherever they’re made. We do this with our digital calibration ecosystem, which makes managing and sharing calibration data quicker and easier than ever > > Mona-Lisa Gannas, Marketing Director At Beamex, our daily work is making the world safer and less uncertain for the 8 billion people who inhabit it. To help you find out more about how calibration can do this, we’ve gathered together a selection of informative articles and sustainability resources here: . Get in touch if you’d like to know more! ## Media contact: Mona-Lisa Grannas, Marketing Director Beamex Oy Ab [View all press releases](https://www.beamex.com/about-us/press-releases/) [View Media Kit](https://www.beamex.com/about-us/for-media/) ## About Beamex: Beamex is your trusted partner for calibration excellence, providing accurate measurements, reliable data, and traceability for a safer and less uncertain world. Beamex helps improve efficiency, ensure compliance, and increase safety with its comprehensive ecosystem of calibration solutions – from field calibration to workshop calibration, calibration management, and services. 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