Decree of the Slovak Office of Labour Safety and the Slovak Mining Office No. 25 / 1979 Coll.
Decree of the Slovak Labour Safety Authority and of the Slovak Mining Authority, which determines reserved electrical equipment and lays down certain conditions to ensure their safety
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Effective from 01.07.1979
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DECLARATION
Slovak Office of Labour Security and Slovak Mining Office
of 22 January 1979
determining reserved electrical equipment and laying down certain conditions to ensure their safety
The Slovak Labour Safety Authority pursuant to § 5 (1) (d) and (f) of Act No. 174 / 1968 Coll., on State Professional Safety Supervision (hereinafter referred to as "the Act '), and the Slovak Mining Authority pursuant to § 57 (1) (d) of Act No. 41 / 1957 Coll., on the Use of Mineral Wealth (Upper Law), and pursuant to § 10 (a) and (c) of the Slovak National Council Act No. 42 / 1972 Coll., on the organisation and extension of supervision of the State Mining Administration, in an agreement with the competent authorities and organisations provides:
Scope
(1) The decree is binding on organisations which are subject to the competence of the national professional labour safety authorities, (1) and on organisations which carry out an activity falling within the competence of the State Mining Administration.2)
(2) The Decree does not apply to technical installations subject to supervision by the authorities referred to in § 3 (2) (b) of the Act.
Reserved electrical equipment
Reserved electrical equipment pursuant to § 4 (d) to (g) of the Act (hereinafter referred to as "equipment ') are equipment
(a) for the production, conversion, distribution and collection of electricity;
(b) intended to protect against the effects of atmospheric or static electricity.
Authorisation of organisations
(1) Organisations may:
(a) carry out the installation, repair and maintenance of the equipment;
(b) to produce low voltage switchboards, in a supplier's way only on the basis of an authorisation.
(2) The authorisation is issued by the labour security inspector or, where appropriate, by the district mining authority (hereinafter referred to as the "supervisory authority") within whose jurisdiction the organisation is based, on a written request from the organisation, supported by the opinion of its superior authority.
The organisation shall indicate in the application:
(a) the exact name and address;
(b) the name and address of the establishment (s) for which the authorisation is sought if it is not at the headquarters of the organisation;
(c) the name and address of its superior authority;
(d) an indication of the type of authorisation sought and its scope;
(e) ensuring the performance of the activity for which the authorisation is sought, in terms of technical equipment and professional qualifications of the staff.
(3) When verifying the organisation's competence, the supervisory authority shall ascertain whether its technical standards and competence of its staff (3) provide assurance that the activity with regard to the scope of the required authorisation will comply with the requirements of safety of work and technical equipment.
(4) The supervisory authority may, on the basis of the outcome of the proficiency check, lay down additional conditions to ensure the safety of work and technical equipment. The organisation must demonstrate compliance with these conditions before issuing the authorisation.
(5) If the supervisory authority finds that the conditions laid down are not complied with or that the rules to ensure the safety of work and technical equipment are infringed during the operation of the authorisation, it shall limit the scope of the authorisation or withdraw it from the organisation,
Obligations of organisations
(1) The supplier organisation is required to ensure, to the extent and under the conditions laid down by the regulations, the inspection of the equipment (revisions, tests, etc.) and to obtain documentary evidence thereof (reports of revisions, test reports, quality certificates and completeness, etc.) and to submit them with the equipment to the customer.
(2) Organisation carrying out installation of equipment
(a) electricity generation, conversion and distribution
1. in power plants, having a rated power output of more than 5 MW;
2. in high, very high and particularly high voltage switching stations,
3. in transformers with a rated output of more than 1 MW;
(b) electricity conversion, distribution and collection
1. with a total rated power greater than 0,3 MW;
2. Installed in potentially explosive atmospheres or in spaces with regard to electric shock particularly dangerous, 4)
3. in buildings designed to collect more than 250 persons,
is required to notify at least 15 days in advance to the competent supervisory authority within the scope of which the assembly work has been carried out, the completion of the assembly as a whole.
(3) The organisation may notify the completion of the assembly of the individual parts if the equipment is composed of several parts that can be operated separately.
(4) An organisation operating an installation (hereinafter referred to as "operator") is required to ensure, in the framework of preventive maintenance, that the specified inspections of the installation (revisions, tests, inspections, etc.) are carried out taking into account the conditions under which the installation is operated.
(5) The records and documents which the operator is obliged to purchase (5) on the operation, revisions, detected defects, repairs and reconstructions of the equipment must be kept, unless otherwise specified, until the defects have been remedied, but at least until the next revision or control of the same scale.
(6) Only qualified personnel may carry out initial and regular revisions. The requirements for their competence shall be laid down in a specific Regulation (3).
Transitional and final provisions
(1) The organisations carrying out the activity referred to in Article 3 are obliged to apply without authorisation within six months of the entry into force of this Decree.
(2) Authorisations issued to organisations before the Decree is effective shall remain valid for three years from the date on which the Decree becomes effective.
This Decree takes effect on 1 July 1979.6)
The President
Slovak Mining Authority:
Ing. Baran CSc.
Director
Slovak Labour Safety Authority:
Ing. Kováč v. r.
1) Paragraph 3 (1) of the Act.
2) § 37 of Act No. 41 / 1957 Coll., on the Use of Mineral Wealth (Mining Act), § 3 of Act No. 42 / 1972 Coll., on the Organisation and Extension of Surveillance of the State Mining Administration.
3) Decree No. 51 / 1978 Coll., on competence in electrical engineering.
4) ČSN 34 1010 General regulations for protection against dangerous contact voltage.
5) E.g. ČSN 34 3800 Revision of electrical equipment and lightning pipes.
6) This date the provisions of Decree No. 133 / 1973 Coll., concerning reserved electrical equipment, which was repealed by Decree No. 22 / 1979 Coll.
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Decree of the Slovak Labour Safety Authority and Slovak Mining Authority No. 25 / 1979 Coll., determining reserved electrical equipment and laying down certain conditions to ensure their safety |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 05.03.1979 |
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| Effective from | 01.07.1979 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
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