Regulations on Equipment used for technical inspection of occupational safety under the Ministry of Industry and Trade in Vietnam (latest)

Regulations on Equipment used for technical inspection of occupational safety under the Ministry of Industry and Trade in Vietnam (latest)

Regarding this issue, LawNet would like to answer as follows:

On October 31, 2023, the Minister of Industry and Trade issued Circular 18/2023/TT-BCT amending, supplementing and abolishing a number of articles of Circulars regulating technical inspection of labor safety under the management authority of the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Regulations on Equipment used for technical inspection of occupational safety under the Ministry of Industry and Trade in Vietnam (latest)

Specifically, Article 4 of Circular 09/2017/TT-BCT, amended in Circular 37/2018/TT-BCT, Circular 12/2020/TT-BCT and Circular 18/2023/TT-BCT regulates equipment used for inspection of labor safety under the Ministry of Industry and Trade are as follows:

- Equipment used for inspection shall have technical parameters suitable for inspected objects and shall be inspected, calibrated and tested according to regulations of law.

- Specific compulsory requirements for inspecting activities towards each group of inspected objects:

* Group A, group B and group C

+ Hydraulic test pump;

+ Types of manometers;

+ Metal thickness gauges;

+ Weld quality testing equipment;

+ Metal defect testing equipment by magnets and penetrant electric currents;

+ Equipment for testing of defects by endoscopy;

+ Instruments and means of testing geometrical dimensions;

+ Tools for checking surface defect size of metal;

+ Safety valve inspection equipment;

+ Temperature measurement devices.

* Group D

+ LPG recovery equipment remaining in bottles;

+ Metal thickness gauges;

+ Tools for checking surface defect size of metal;

+ Bottle valve fittings;

+ Durable test equipment;

+ Bottle drying equipment;

+ Devices checking inside bottles;

+ Surface cleaning equipment;

+ Bottle valve inspection equipment;

+ Volume scales;

+  Numbering equipment and verification mark equipment;

+ Vacuum equipment;

+ Volume expansion testers.

* Group E

- System for generating pressure to test valves, hydraulic props and pressure pipes;

- Equipment for maintaining pressure to test hydraulic props;

- Test apparatus for hydraulic support beams, hydraulic roof trusses or hydraulic support frames;

- Weld testing equipment by ultrasound method;

- Different types of manometers;

Inspection organizations that only inspect hydraulic props are not required to have test apparatus for testing hydraulic support beams, hydraulic roof trusses or hydraulic support frames.

* Group G

+ Dynamometers;

+ Geometrical measuring equipment;

+ Speed measuring equipment;

+ Track gauges;

+ Geodetic measuring devices;

+ Steel cable defect inspection devices;

+ Equipment to check eccentricity and radial deflection of spindle joints;

+ Hauling equipment for steel cable inspection by destruction method;

+ Weld quality testing equipment;

+  Metal defect testing equipment by magnets;

+ Timing devices for braking;

+ Resistances and electrical resistors;

+ Voltmeters, ammeters.

+ Types of manometers.

* Group H

+ Water pressure testing equipment;

+ Impact testing equipment;

+ Test equipment for pulling electrical cables in the cable connection funnels;

+ Pile torque testing equipment, cable tie bolts;

+ Insulation resistance measurement equipment;

+ Universal electricity meters;

+ Geometric measuring equipment;

+ Oscilloscope.

* Group I

+ Insulation resistance measurement equipment;

+ Universal electricity meters;

+ Oscilloscope;

+ Stopwatch.

More details can be found in Circular 18/2023/TT-BCT, taking effect on December 20, 2023.

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