Circular 36/2019/TT-BLDTBXH List of equipment types with strict requirements on occupational safety and hygiene

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Circular No. 36/2019/TT-BLĐTBXH is a legal document signed by the Minister of MOLISA on December 30, 2019, and effective from March 1, 2020.

MINISTRY OF LABOR – INVALIDS AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS

MINISTRY OF LABOR – INVALIDS AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS ——————————————————- No.: 36/2019/TT-BLĐTBXH

SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Independence – Freedom – Happiness ————————————————————- Hanoi, December 30, 2019

 

CIRCULAR

Issuing the List of Machinery, Equipment, Supplies, and Substances Subject to Strict Requirements

on Occupational Safety and Hygiene

Pursuant to the Law on Occupational Safety and Hygiene No. 84/2015/QH13 dated June 25, 2015;

Pursuant to Decree No. 44/2016/NĐ-CP dated May 15, 2016, of the Government detailing a number of articles of the Law on Occupational Safety and Hygiene regarding technical safety inspection activities, occupational safety and hygiene training and working environment monitoring;

Pursuant to Decree No. 14/2017/NĐ-CP dated February 17, 2017, of the Government defining the functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structure of the Ministry of Labor – Invalids and Social Affairs;

Upon the proposal of the Director of the Department of Work Safety;

The Minister of Labor – Invalids and Social Affairs promulgates the Circular issuing the List of Machinery, Equipment, Supplies, and Substances Subject to Strict Requirements on Occupational Safety and Hygiene.

Article 1. List of Machinery, Equipment, Supplies, and Substances Subject to Strict Requirements on Occupational Safety and Hygiene in Circular No. 36/2019/TT-BLĐTBXH

Attached to this Circular is the List of Machinery, Equipment, Supplies, and Substances Subject to Strict Requirements on Occupational Safety and Hygiene.

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Article 2. Organization of Implementation of Circular No. 36/2019/TT-BLĐTBXH

 
1. Based on the socio-economic development situation and state management requirements, the Ministries, according to their management authority over machinery, equipment, supplies, and substances subject to strict requirements on occupational safety and hygiene specified in Article 33 of the Law on Occupational Safety and Hygiene, shall send an official letter to the Ministry of Labor – Invalids and Social Affairs when proposing amendments or additions to the List, with the following contents:
    
   • a) Name of the machinery, equipment, supplies, or substance to be amended or added to the List, including scientific names and trade names (if any);

    

   • b) Assessment of the necessity, feasibility, and impact of amending or adding the types of machinery, equipment, supplies, and substances to the List (accompanied by draft inspection procedures, if any).

 

2. The Department of Work Safety under the Ministry of Labor – Invalids and Social Affairs shall be responsible for compiling and reporting to the Ministry of Labor – Invalids and Social Affairs the proposals for amending and supplementing the List of machinery, equipment, supplies, and substances subject to strict requirements on occupational safety and hygiene from the Ministries as regulated.

 

3. The Departments of Labor – Invalids and Social Affairs of provinces and centrally-run cities shall be responsible for coordinating with relevant agencies to disseminate and guide the implementation of this Circular to businesses, agencies, organizations, cooperatives, households, and individuals using machinery, equipment, supplies, and substances subject to strict requirements on occupational safety and hygiene in the locality; compiling and reporting annually to the Ministry of Labor – Invalids and Social Affairs on the implementation of this Circular together with the report on the local occupational safety and hygiene situation.

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Article 3. Effectiveness of Circular No. 36/2019/TT-BLĐTBXH

 
1. This Circular shall take effect from March 01, 2020.

 

2. Circular No. 53/2016/TT-BLĐTBXH dated December 28, 2016, of the Ministry of Labor – Invalids and Social Affairs promulgating the List of Machinery, Equipment, Supplies, and Substances Subject to Strict Requirements on Occupational Safety and Hygiene, shall cease to be effective from the effective date of this Circular.

 

3. During the implementation, if any difficulties arise, agencies, organizations, and individuals should promptly report in writing to the Ministry of Labor – Invalids and Social Affairs for consideration and resolution./.

 

ON BEHALF OF THE MINISTER

DEPUTY MINISTER

Le Tan Dung

(SIGNED)

 

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LIST

OF MACHINERY, EQUIPMENT, SUPPLIES, AND SUBSTANCES SUBJECT TO STRICT REQUIREMENTS ON OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HYGIENE
(Issued together with Circular No. 36/2019/TT-BLĐTBXH dated December 30, 2019, of the Ministry of Labor – Invalids and Social Affairs)

I. Machinery, Equipment, and Supplies Subject to Strict Requirements on Occupational Safety

No.	MACHINERY, EQUIPMENT, SUPPLIES, AND SUBSTANCES SUBJECT TO STRICT REQUIREMENTS ON OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HYGIENE
1	Boilers of all types (including superheaters and economizers) with a rated operating steam pressure above 0.7 bar; hot water boilers with a medium temperature above $115^\circ \text{C}$.
2	Thermal oil heaters.
3	Piping systems for steam and hot water of classes I and II with an outer diameter of $51 \text{mm}$ or more, and piping systems of classes III and IV with an outer diameter of $76 \text{mm}$ or more, according to the classification in Vietnam National Standards TCVN 6158:1996 and TCVN 6159:1996.
4	Pressure vessels with a rated operating pressure higher than $0.7 \text{bar}$ (excluding hydrostatic pressure) according to the classification in Vietnam National Standard TCVN 8366:2010 and pressure vessels with a rated operating pressure above $210 \text{bar}$.
5	Tanks, vats (cisterns), and drums used for containing or transporting liquefied gas, liquefied petroleum gas, compressed natural gas, or liquids with an operating pressure higher than $0.7 \text{bar}$, or liquids or solids in powder form without pressure but which use gas with a pressure higher than $0.7 \text{bar}$ when discharged, according to the classification in Vietnam National Standard TCVN 8366:2010.
6	Cylinders of all types used for containing or transporting compressed gas, liquefied gas, compressed natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, or dissolved gas with an operating pressure higher than $0.7 \text{bar}$.
7	Supply systems, preparation systems, and filling systems for compressed gas, liquefied gas, liquefied petroleum gas, or dissolved gas.
8	Fixed gas pipeline systems, offshore gas pipeline systems; Medical gas pipeline systems; Compressed gas, liquefied gas, or dissolved gas pipeline systems.
9	Refrigeration systems classified in TCVN 6739:2015, including: Using refrigerants of groups A3, B2L, B2, B3; Using refrigerants of group A2 with a system charge of $1.5 \text{kg}$ or more; Using refrigerants of groups A1, A2L, B1 with a system charge of $05 \text{kg}$ or more.
10	Cranes.
11	Overhead traveling cranes.
12	Gantry cranes, semi-gantry cranes.
13	Cableways for cargo; Cableways for passengers; Cableways in construction machinery, inclined shaft hoists, vertical shaft hoists.
14	Electric hoists; Hand-operated hoists with a lifting capacity of $1,000 \text{kg}$ or more.
15	Electric trolleys running on rails.
16	Electric winches used for lifting or pulling loads on an inclined plane; lifting tables; lifting platforms; lifting platforms used for lifting people to work at height; winches for lifting people to work at height.
17	Hand-operated winches with a lifting capacity of $1,000 \text{kg}$ or more.
18	Forklift trucks with an engine and a lifting capacity of $1,000 \text{kg}$ or more.
19	Personnel lifting vehicles: Self-propelled personnel lifting vehicles, personnel lifting vehicles using hydraulic drive mechanisms, chain-driven hand hoists lifting people to a height exceeding $2 \text{m}$.
20	Construction hoists for goods; construction hoists for goods and personnel; construction hoists for personnel; hoists used in construction work.
21	Elevators of all types.
22	Escalators; moving walkways for passengers.
23	Mobile performance stages.
24	Amusement rides: roller coasters, ferris wheels, slides carrying people to a height of $2 \text{m}$ or more, with a passenger movement speed of $3 \text{m/s}$ or more relative to the fixed floor, excluding sports competition equipment.
25	Cable car systems for passengers.
26	Winches, hoists with a lifting capacity of $1,000 \text{kg}$ or more used in underground mining.
27	Single hydraulic props, mobile frame supports, and self-advancing roof supports composed of single hydraulic props used for roof support in underground mining.
28	Internal combustion engines (Crankcase volume over $0.6 \text{m}^3$ or cylinder diameter over $200 \text{mm}$).
29	Explosion-proof transformers.
30	Explosion-proof electric motors.
31	Explosion-proof distribution and switching equipment (magnetic starters, soft starters, circuit breakers, automatic circuit breakers, inverters, earth leakage relays).
32	Explosion-proof control equipment (control panels, push-button boxes).
33	Explosion-proof generators.
34	Explosion-proof electric cables.
35	Explosion-proof lighting fixtures.
36	Electric detonating machines.
37	Sliding formwork systems.
38	Drilling machines, pile pressing machines, pile driving machines.
39	Independent concrete pumping systems.
40	Scaffolding, shoring, and load-bearing column systems.
41	Suspended platforms used for lifting people in construction work.
42	Radio broadcasting stations with a maximum transmission power of $150 \text{W}$ or more.
43	Television broadcasting stations with a maximum transmission power of $150 \text{W}$ or more.
44	Floating systems (Buoys, ferries, canoes, etc.).
45	Vehicles transporting oversized and overweight beams; beam launching vehicles.

 

II. Machinery, Equipment, and Supplies Subject to Special Military Occupational Safety Requirements

No.	MACHINERY, EQUIPMENT, SUPPLIES, AND SUBSTANCES SUBJECT TO STRICT REQUIREMENTS ON OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HYGIENE
1	Explosives of all types.
2	Detonating devices (detonators, detonating cords, safety fuses, etc.).
3	Cables and optical cables for the 3f-24.40; 3f-24.50; БФMИ 468929.058 equipment set.
4	Optical cable for the 3f-10.36-04 equipment set.
5	Load testing equipment 8E088.
6	Equipment MC-35004/Equipment set MC-35030.
7	Missile transfer vehicle set K350-110.
8	Drying and cooling station YXHC f55-70MЭ.
9	Disassembly stand K350-60.
10	Lifting beam K350-14-01.
11	Cylinder systems, Nitrogen pipeline networks.
12	Station systems, storage, bottling, and preparation networks for liquid/gaseous Nitrogen with high purity up to $98\%$.
13	Nitrogen gas cylinder for launch vehicle 9П-117M.
14	Cable set for lifting missile containers.
15	Missile lifting bar P-15UПY9513-0.
16	Cable for lifting missile containers; propulsion engine П9510-10A; warhead П 9590-0; warhead in box C1.42-00.
17	Air compressors ДK-9M and ЭK-9.
18	Equipment for stabilizing propellant and explosives (Linter stabilization equipment; Hexogen stabilization equipment; Nitrocellulose (NC) stabilization equipment).
19	Reactor equipment belonging to the propellant and explosive production line (equipment for creating Nitroglycerin (NG); equipment for creating Nitrocellulose (NC); equipment for creating Dinitrotoluene (DNT); equipment for manufacturing Tetracene acid; equipment for manufacturing Lead Styphnate acid).
20	Pressure equipment containing raw materials for manufacturing explosive materials (pressure tank for transporting $\text{Na}_2\text{CO}_3$; pressure tank for transporting DNT; pressure tank for transporting $\text{Na}_2\text{SO}_4$; pressure tank for transporting $\text{Na}_2\text{SO}_3$).
21	Equipment for filling and compacting explosives belonging to the propellant and explosive production line: Mechanical equipment (fine pressing machine, 10-position pressing machine); hydraulic equipment (hydraulic pressing machine, pressing equipment for primer charge, black powder pressing machine).
22	Equipment for batch mixing of propellant and explosives in the propellant and explosive production line: Rotating drum mixing equipment (mixing machine for detonating cord powder, grinding and mixing machine for 3-part black powder, grinding and mixing machine for Ammonite, machine for mixing powder with medicine); Shaking type mixing equipment (TEN powder screening machine, dust removal machine for selecting black powder grains, black powder granulating machine, screening machine for initiating explosives); Paddle-type mixing equipment (machine for mixing mixed powder, machine for mixing wet explosive mixture, machine for mixing gum with medicine).
23	Equipment for assembling and vibrating ammunition and primers: Vibration testing machine; impact testing machine; ammunition drawing and crimping machine; equipment for disassembling the fuze and tail tube of B40 ammunition.
24	Ammunition rust removal machine.
25	Pneumatic ammunition clamping equipment.
26	Pressure increasing/decreasing chambers; high-pressure gas filter; pressure chambers used in training and rehabilitation for combat divers.
27	Air compressor stations YKC; VZ20/350; Oxygen station AKZC 75M; Nitrogen station UGZCIA.
28	Cranes of all types used for: Lifting/lowering torpedoes, missiles, lifting/lowering boats on ships, islands.
29	Missile ammunition davits.
30	Lifting/lowering system for PMP pontoon bridge sets (winches for lifting/lowering).
31	Equipment for lifting/lowering bombs and ammunition (Electric hoists; Hand-operated hoists with a lifting capacity of $500 \text{kg}$ or more).
32	Electric winches, manual winches used for lifting or pulling loads in propellant and explosive production workshops.
33	Bomb and ammunition lifting vehicle.
34	Ejection seat crane vehicle.
35	Electromagnetic radiation equipment (radar stations, wireless communication stations, electronic warfare).
36	Car lifting/lowering equipment.
37	Lifting, lowering, and transfer vehicle for $4050$ air defense missile ammunition.
38	Trailer for compressed gas up to $400 \text{at}$ 5Л94, MC-10.
39	Primer charge testing stand ППЗ.
40	Cranes of types 8T-210, KC-2573.
41	Oxygen station UGZC-KP.
42	Nitrogen station UGZC-MA.
43	Laser radiation equipment with a power $\ge 10 \text{mW}$ ($10 \text{mJ}$).
44	Bomb and ammunition cutting machines.
45	Bomb fuze disassembly equipment.

 

III. Machinery, Equipment, Supplies, and Substances Subject to Special Public Security Occupational Safety Requirements

No.	MACHINERY, EQUIPMENT, SUPPLIES, AND SUBSTANCES SUBJECT TO STRICT REQUIREMENTS ON OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HYGIENE
1	Tear agents (tear gas).
2	Electric batons.
3	Rubber bullet guns.
4	Explosive devices, smoke devices.
5	Mail bomb disposal equipment.
6	Explosive detectors.
7	X-ray screening machines.
8	Mobile signal jamming devices.
9	Explosive mechanism destruction guns.
10	Fire extinguishing agents – Fire extinguishing powder.
11	Fire extinguishing agents – Foam forming agents for fire extinguishing.
12	Fire protection and fighting systems – Automatic sprinkler systems.
13	Fire protection and fighting means for houses and constructions.
14	Gas fire suppression systems.
15	Portable fire extinguishers.

 

Workers performing jobs related to or exposed to the types of machinery and equipment in the list above all belong to Group 3.

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