System requiring monitoring

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Plant requiring monitoring is a term from the German Product Safety Act (ProdSG) that applies to the manufacture or construction of plants that serve commercial or economic purposes or through which employees can be endangered. According to Section 2 No. 30 ProdSG, systems that require monitoring are included

  1. Steam boiler systems with the exception of steam boiler systems on seagoing vessels,
  2. Pressure vessel systems except steam boilers,
  3. Plants for filling compressed, liquefied or pressurized gases ,
  4. Lines under internal overpressure for flammable, corrosive or toxic gases, vapors or liquids ,
  5. Elevator systems ,
  6. Systems in potentially explosive areas,
  7. Beverage dispensing systems and systems for the production of carbonated beverages ,
  8. Acetylene plants and calcium carbide bearings ,
  9. Systems for the storage, filling and transport of flammable liquids.

The systems that require monitoring also include measuring , control and regulating devices that ensure the safe operation of these systems.

The energy systems within the meaning of the Energy Industry Act are not among the systems that require monitoring .

In operation, the systems requiring monitoring represent a subset of the work equipment within the meaning of the Industrial Safety Ordinance (BetrSichV). In this respect, the common provisions of Section 2 of the BetrSichV apply to them, insofar as these systems are used by employees at work. Otherwise, the provisions of Section 3 of the BetrSichV are to be applied in particular (this also ensures the protection of third parties). Basically, systems requiring monitoring may only be put into operation if they comply with the provisions of the Product Safety Act (minimum requirements for quality).

Systems requiring monitoring are operationally special systems because they reflect the four particular hazards of steam, pressure, fall and fire / explosion from the industrial safety ordinance. Due to this particular risk potential, they require special monitoring according to German legal opinion. This legally historical approach is a German peculiarity that does not apply in other EEA countries.

It applies to all systems that all parts are included that are necessary for the safe operation of the system. For pressure vessel systems this means, for example, that the complete functional unit consists of pressure vessels, pipelines, equipment parts and equipment parts with a safety function.

The protection concept of the BetrSichV provides for systems that require monitoring:

  • Minimum requirements for the quality (unless they are already given by other legal provisions such as the Pressure Equipment Directive , Elevator Directive , ATEX Product Directive )
  • special consideration in the safety assessment for operation
  • State of the art is the sole operational safety standard
  • suitable protective measures
  • Tests (e.g. test before commissioning, recurring and officially ordered extraordinary tests).

Depending on the size, type or nature of the system, these measures overlap or interlock. The implementation mostly takes place within the framework of the mandatory operational security measures, some of which correspond to the above. The measures for systems in need of monitoring are largely codified and are only subject to a very limited extent to the discretion of the operator. Integration into the company's quality assurance concept can be seen as the ideal implementation .

There is a permit reservation for certain systems that require monitoring, ie the operator must apply for a permit from the responsible authority.