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Operation of plants requiring monitoring in accordance with the Industrial Safety Ordinance Arrangement Safety Assessment
After a serious accident specified in the law, the competent authority may order a safety assessment of certain installations requiring monitoring in accordance with the Industrial Safety Ordinance by an approved inspection body.
The employer must make an accident or damage report. This is possible in writing or online. The authority may then order a safety inspection by an approved inspection body. This is to be carried out by the employer at his own expense.
The responsibility lies with the State Labour Inspectorate.
Responsibility lies with the State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology, provided that the plant requiring monitoring is operated within the framework of the Federal Mining Act, the Gas High Pressure Pipeline Ordinance, the Pipeline Ordinance or the Carbon Dioxide Storage Act.
There must be a notifiable event in connection with an installation requiring monitoring, in the case of a
- An accident in which a person has been killed or seriously injured, or an accident
- In the event of damage in which components or safety-related devices have failed.
The Authority shall consider it necessary to carry out a review by a specific Approved Surveillance Body.
The amount of the costs will be determined in the course of the administrative procedure. They are governed by the Lower Saxony Administrative Costs Act (NVwKostG).
If, following a major accident, the authority recognises the need for a safety assessment, it will immediately order it and set a deadline for its implementation. There are no statutory deadlines.
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
Lower Saxony Ministry of Social Affairs, Health and Gender Equality
State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology
Source: Serviceportal Niedersachsen (Portalverbund des Bundes und der Länder)