Saatja: "Aleksandr Tolstoj" <
[email protected]>
Saaja: "MKM info" <
[email protected]>
Teema: FW: Request for information (potencially dangerous equipment – lifts, tanks, etc.)
Kuupäev: 2022-09-13 07:39
Dear colleagues!
We look forward for your response very much (please see e-mail below) and
your answer will be very valuable for us.
Would you be so kind to provide by e-mail (
[email protected];
[email protected]) (by September 21, 2022 or a.s.a.p.) the
following information:
1. List of potentially dangerous equipment regulated in your country.
2. Law or other legislation governing potentially dangerous equipment (URL
link).
3. List of responsible state institutions (for state policy formation,
implementation, control, etc.) in the field of potentially dangerous
equipment.
4. Statistics of accidents (by categories light, serious, fatal) at work
related to potentially dangerous equipment (for example, since 2002
according to each category of potentially dangerous equipment).
5. Information about the presence of a common register of potentially
dangerous equipment (URL link).
6. Any other important relevant information, the disclosure of which would
better reflect the specificities and good practices of the legal
regulation and control model of potentially dangerous equipment in your
country.
Kind Regards,
Aleksandr Tolstoj
Advisor
Work Environment Unit
Ministry of Social Security and Labour of the Republic of Lithuania
Tel. +370 615 67 632
E-mail
[email protected]
From: SM Info <
[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2022 10:56 AM
To: Aleksandr Tolstoj <
[email protected]>
Subject: RE: Request for information (potencially dangerous equipment)
Hello,
We forwarded your request to the Ministry of Economic Affairs and
Communications for a response.
With Regards
Ministry of Social Affairs
From: Aleksandr Tolstoj <
[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2022 1:52 PM
To: SM Info <
[email protected]>; Seili Suder <
[email protected]>;
[email protected];
[email protected];
[email protected];
[email protected];
[email protected];
[email protected]
Cc: Aldona Sabaitienė <
[email protected]>
Subject: Request for information (potencially dangerous equipment)
Importance: High
Dear colleagues!
The Ministry of Social Security and Labour of the Republic of Lithuania is
a state institution which make state policy on occupational safety and
health at work and permanently seeks to improve the legal regulation of
the potentially dangerous equipment in Lithuania.
It should be noted that the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on the
Supervision of Potentially Dangerous Equipment
(https://e-seimas.lrs.lt/portal/legalAct/lt/TAD/TAIS.27535/asr) regulates
the following categories of potentially dangerous equipment:
1. steam and water heating boilers;
2. pressure vessels (tanks);
3. pressure pipelines for dangerous substances, pressure steam pipelines
and hot water pipelines;
4. pressureless tanks for dangerous substances;
5. lifts;
6. hoists for lifting people and goods;
7. cableways;
8. escalators and moving walks for transporting people ;
9. lifting equipment (cranes);
10. motorized amusement equipment (attractions);
11. technological installations for burning gaseous fuels.
The Government of the Republic of Lithuania has appointed 3 ministries for
the administrative regulation of the mentioned categories of potentially
dangerous equipment – the Ministry of Social Security and Labor of the
Republic of Lithuania, the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of
Lithuania, the Ministry of Economy and Innovation of the Republic of
Lithuania.
The control of the implementation of the requirements for the supervision
of all categories of potentially dangerous equipment in Lithuania is
carried out by the State Labour Inspectorate of the Republic of Lithuania
under the Ministry of Social Security and Labour. It also performs the
functions of manager and administrator of the State Register of
Potentially Dangerous Equipment
(https://www.vdi.lt/Forms/Tema.aspx?Tema_ID=26&lang=lt).
Tests and inspections of the technical condition of potentially dangerous
equipment are carried out by accredited bodies
(https://www.vdi.lt/Forms/Tekstas1.aspx?Tekstai_ID=68). In Lithuania such
bodies are accredited by the National Accreditation Bureau
(https://nab.lrv.lt/en/).
More information about potentially dangerous equipment in Lithuania can be
found here:
https://socmin.lrv.lt/en/activities/labour-and-employment/technical-safety
/potentially-dangerous-equipment?lang=lt.
In this context, information about the regulatory and maintenance models
of potentially dangerous equipment in your countries is very important for
us.
We would be very grateful if you could provide by e-mail
(
[email protected];
[email protected]) (preferably by
September 12, 2022 or sooner if possible) the following information:
1. List of potentially dangerous equipment regulated in your country.
2. Law or other legislation governing potentially dangerous equipment (URL
link).
3. List of responsible state institutions (for state policy formation,
implementation, control, etc.) in the field of potentially dangerous
equipment.
4. Statistics of accidents (by categories light, serious, fatal) at work
related to potentially dangerous equipment (for example, since 2002
according to each category of potentially dangerous equipment).
5. Information about the presence of a common register of potentially
dangerous equipment (URL link).
6. Any other important relevant information, the disclosure of which would
better reflect the specificities and good practices of the legal
regulation and control model of potentially dangerous equipment in your
country.
If in your opinion these questions are within the competence of another
person, would you be so kind to forward this e-mail to the appropriate
person.
Thank you for cooperation!
Kind Regards,
Aleksandr Tolstoj
Advisor
Work Environment Unit
Ministry of Social Security and Labour of the Republic of Lithuania
Tel. +370 615 67 632
E-mail
[email protected]
Saatja: Merike Ring </O=JM/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=C905A23343F64DBD80EAF00E78CD43B1-MERIKE RING>
Saaja: Marie Allikmaa
Teema: FW: Request for information (potencially dangerous equipment)
From: Merike Ring
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 11:52 AM
To: '
[email protected]' <
[email protected]>; '
[email protected]' <
[email protected]>
Subject: Request for information (potencially dangerous equipment)
Dear Aleksandr and Aldona,
Thank you for your letter! In Estonia, we have similar regulations and a system as in Lithuania.
You can find our replies in blue below.
Dear colleagues!
The Ministry of Social Security and Labour of the Republic of Lithuania is a state institution which make state policy on occupational safety and health at work and permanently seeks to improve the legal regulation of the potentially dangerous equipment in Lithuania.
It should be noted that the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on the Supervision of Potentially Dangerous Equipment (https://e-seimas.lrs.lt/portal/legalAct/lt/TAD/TAIS.27535/asr) regulates the following categories of potentially dangerous equipment:
1. steam and water heating boilers;
2. pressure vessels (tanks);
3. pressure pipelines for dangerous substances, pressure steam pipelines and hot water pipelines;
4. pressureless tanks for dangerous substances;
5. lifts;
6. hoists for lifting people and goods;
7. cableways;
8. escalators and moving walks for transporting people ;
9. lifting equipment (cranes);
10. motorized amusement equipment (attractions);
11. technological installations for burning gaseous fuels.
The Government of the Republic of Lithuania has appointed 3 ministries for the administrative regulation of the mentioned categories of potentially dangerous equipment – the Ministry of Social Security and Labor of the Republic of Lithuania, the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Lithuania, the Ministry of Economy and Innovation of the Republic of Lithuania.
The control of the implementation of the requirements for the supervision of all categories of potentially dangerous equipment in Lithuania is carried out by the State Labour Inspectorate of the Republic of Lithuania under the Ministry of Social Security and Labour. It also performs the functions of manager and administrator of the State Register of Potentially Dangerous Equipment (https://www.vdi.lt/Forms/Tema.aspx?Tema_ID=26&lang=lt).
Tests and inspections of the technical condition of potentially dangerous equipment are carried out by accredited bodies (https://www.vdi.lt/Forms/Tekstas1.aspx?Tekstai_ID=68). In Lithuania such bodies are accredited by the National Accreditation Bureau (https://nab.lrv.lt/en/).
More information about potentially dangerous equipment in Lithuania can be found here: https://socmin.lrv.lt/en/activities/labour-and-employment/technical-safety/potentially-dangerous-equipment?lang=lt.
In this context, information about the regulatory and maintenance models of potentially dangerous equipment in your countries is very important for us.
We would be very grateful if you could provide by e-mail (
[email protected] <mailto:
[email protected]> ;
[email protected] <mailto:
[email protected]> ) (preferably by September 12, 2022 or sooner if possible) the following information:
1. List of potentially dangerous equipment regulated in your country.
We have also the list of potentially dangerous equipment, which are regulated by Regulation No. 95, https://www.riigiteataja.ee/akt/125012022003 <https://www.riigiteataja.ee/akt/125012022003> . We call this procedure an ‘audit’.
‘Audit’ means technical inspection aimed at identifying the good mechanical condition of the equipment and the safety of use for the designated purpose and manner, as well as possible substantial deficiencies.
(1) A device with an audit obligation is a pressure device whose technical parameters meet or exceed the following parameters:
(1) a steam boiler with an operating pressure of more than 1,0 bar or a volume of more than 1,0 cubic meters;
(2) a hot water boiler with an operating temperature of more than 120 ºC or a volume of more than 1,0 cubic meters;
(3) a fluid boiler with an operating temperature of more than 1,0 bar or a volume of more than 1,0 cubic meters;
(4) an overheated steam pipe with an internal diameter of more than 100 millimeters, if it has a pressure of 16-39 bar or an internal diameter of more than 70 millimeters, if it has a pressure of more than 39 bar;
5) piping of hot water or saturated steam with an internal diameter of more than 100 millimeters if it has a pressure of 16-80 bar or an internal diameter of more than 70 millimeters if it has a pressure of more than 80 bar;
6) a vessel containing a safe gas or hot water (more than 110 oC) with a product of working pressure (bars) and volume (liters) of more than 10,000;
7) a vessel containing a dangerous gas or liquid with a product of working pressure (bars) and volume (liters) of more than 500;
7'1) a ground heating gas pressure equipment with a product of the total working pressure (bars) and volume (liters) of the pressure vessels and cylinders of more than 500;
8) medical gas systems are classified as higher than Category I according to Directive 2014/68/EU of the European Parliament and the Council, Directive 2014/68/EU on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of pressure equipment (OJ L 189, 27.6.2014, pp. 164 - 259);
9) safe gas pipelines with a maximum working pressure (in bars) and a nominal cross-sectional area (in square millimeters) greater than 106;
10) dangerous gas pipelines with a maximum working pressure (in bars) and a nominal cross-sectional area (in square millimeters) greater than 104 and dangerous liquid pipelines with an internal diameter of 150 millimeters or less;
11) stationary vessels with a capacity of more than 5 cubic meters and a transport vessel for dangerous liquid with a capacity of more than 2.5 cubic meters;
12) transportable pressure equipment.
(2) A device subject to audit is a gas installation.
(3) A device with an audit obligation is a machine that is:
(1) a bridge, gantry, and cantilever crane operated from the cab;
(2) a bridge, gantry, and rotary or movable cantilever crane with a lifting capacity exceeding 5 tonnes operated from a control unit located outside the crane;
(3) a tower crane and a stationary arrow crane with a lifting capacity of more than 1 tonne;
(4) a portal crane;
(5) a railway crane;
(6) a mobile arrow crane;
(7) a platform lift and a cargo lift with a lifting capacity of more than 300 kilograms;
(8) a construction lift for lifting people;
(9) an amusement park device designed for at least three people and which moves the person on it at least at a speed of 0,5 meters per second or lifts the person at a lifting point of more than 3 meters;
(10) an elevator;
(11) a cableway;
(12) a basket lift with a lifting height of more than 3 meters, except for life-saving lifts;
13) an escalator and a mobile road for moving people;
14) a hydraulic lift with a lifting capacity of more than 1 tonne at the furthest lifting point of the main arrow according to the load curve and a maximum lifting capacity of more than 7 tonnes.
(5) There is no audit obligation for the following equipment:
(1) an elevator installed in an electric wind turbine and used solely for the maintenance of an electric wind turbine;
(2) a hoist mounted on a truck;
(3) an excavator;
(4) a stage lift and a suspended work stage.
2. Law or other legislation governing potentially dangerous equipment (URL link).
We have the Equipment Safety Act, which is also available in English and you can find it here: https://www.riigiteataja.ee/en/eli/504022021001/consolide <https://www.riigiteataja.ee/en/eli/504022021001/consolide> .
We have also different regulations with numbers 86, 87, and 95. You can find more information here: https://www.riigiteataja.ee/akt_rakendusaktid.html?id=130122020010&kuvarakendus=1 <https://www.riigiteataja.ee/akt_rakendusaktid.html?id=130122020010&kuvarakendus=1>
We have a similar system also for electrical types of equipment. There we apply the Equipment Safety Act and Regulations No. 74 and 91, which you can find here https://www.riigiteataja.ee/akt_rakendusaktid.html?id=130122020010&kuvarakendus=1 <https://www.riigiteataja.ee/akt_rakendusaktid.html?id=130122020010&kuvarakendus=1>
3. List of responsible state institutions (for state policy formation, implementation, control, etc.) in the field of potentially dangerous equipment.
The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications is responsible for legislation procedures.
Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority is the supervisory authority.
As we have the same system as you, we also have third parties who control the above-named equipment. Third parties are: Kiwa Inspecta Estonia https://www.kiwa.com/ee/et/ <https://www.kiwa.com/ee/et/> and Tehnoaudit OÜ https://tehnoaudit.ee/ <https://tehnoaudit.ee/>
It is possible that entrepreneurs use self- inspection. t may be provided that audit steps may be replaced with self-inspection. Self-inspection must ensure a result equal to that of an audit and cover steps required for the maintenance of the equipment. Self-inspection steps must be included in a relevant management system that has been certified by an accredited management system certification authority and be indicated in the management system certificate (Equipment Safety Act article 8 point 3).
4. Statistics of accidents (by categories light, serious, fatal) at work related to potentially dangerous equipment (for example, since 2002 according to each category of potentially dangerous equipment).
Please see the attached failed. Estonia collects data on accidents at work by Eurostat methodology and uses the ESAW classification.
5. Information about the presence of a common register of potentially dangerous equipment (URL link).
Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority has a register https://jvis.ttja.ee/ <https://jvis.ttja.ee/> , which is based on Regulation No. 5 https://www.riigiteataja.ee/akt/125012022007 <https://www.riigiteataja.ee/akt/125012022007> .
It is possible to log into the system and see all the data related to you. When you are an owner of an equipment, you see the data of the equipment, audit, etc.
.
6. Any other important relevant information, the disclosure of which would better reflect the specificities and good practices of the legal regulation and control model of potentially dangerous equipment in your country.
You can watch the website of the Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority, https://www.ttja.ee/en/private-client/safety/home-safety/electrical-safety <https://www.ttja.ee/en/private-client/safety/home-safety/electrical-safety> . Some information is available in English.
If you have any further questions do not hesitate to ask!
Best regards,
Merike Ring
Industrial Safety Adviser
Business and Consumer Environment Department
www.mkm.ee <http://www.mkm.ee> | Suur-Ameerika 1, Tallinn 10122
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications