Construction and operation of a system requiring monitoring in accordance with the Ordinance on Industrial Safety and Health Permit for systems with pressure equipment

If you have a filling system for pressurized gases or make certain changes to it, you require a permit from the competent authority.

Filling systems with pressure equipment in which transportable pressure equipment is filled with a filling capacity of more than 10 kilograms per hour for delivery to others are systems that require monitoring.

You require a permit from the competent authority if you wish to

• wish to erect and put into operation or
• wish to change the design or mode of operation in such a way that the safety of the system is affected.

Permission may be granted subject to the following restrictions:

• limited,
• limited in time,
• subject to conditions or
• with conditions.

If the installation requiring a permit is part of an installation requiring a permit no separate permit is issued. The approval includes the permit.

The occupational health and safety departments of the Darmstadt, Giessen and Kassel regional councils are responsible.

Forms available: No

Written form required: Yes

Informal application possible: Yes

Personal appearance necessary: No

Online services available: No

• The facility for which you are applying for a permit must be a facility requiring a permit.
• You must construct and operate filling systems in accordance with the state of the art.
• Your documentation must be complete, plausible and meaningful.
• The test report from the approved inspection body (ZÜS) must confirm that the system applied for can be operated safely if the measures specified in the documents, including the tests, are complied with.

Appeal:

• You can appeal against the decision within one month of notification.
• You must submit the appeal to the competent authority in writing or for the record.

• Submit the application for approval of the system requiring monitoring with the required documents including the test report from the approved monitoring body (ZÜS) to the responsible authority.
• If a permit is required in accordance with the Federal Immission Control Act, you will receive the application documents back, as a permit in accordance with the Industrial Safety Ordinance will then also be checked as part of the necessary permit in accordance with the Federal Immission Control Act.
• The competent authority will make its decision after examination and inform you of this.

The publication (LV 49) contains a list of the required application documents for systems with pressure equipment (filling systems) in Annex 2.