Metals heat treatment sector
(DGUV Regel 109-605)
Regel
 | DGUV Deutsche Gesetzliche Unfallversicherung Spitzenverband |
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Date of publication: German edition: March 2019, English version issued January 2021
| Table of content | Abschnitt |
|---|---|
| What is the purpose of this rule? | 1 |
| Principles of occupational safety and health | 2 |
| Principles applicable to all sectors | 2.1 |
| Workplaces and tasks: hazards and measures | 3 |
| General hazards in heat treatment plants and measures to be taken | 3.1 |
| Qualification of all parties involved | 3.1.1 |
| Personal protective equipment | 3.1.2 |
| Work-related health hazards - mental stress | 3.1.3 |
| Work-related health hazards - workplace health | 3.1.4 |
| Competence, qualification, preventive medical care, aptitude | 3.1.5 |
| Fire safety | 3.1.6 |
| Temporary storage and manual transport of hardening material | 3.1.7 |
| Industrial trucks | 3.1.8 |
| Cranes | 3.1.9 |
| Servicing and maintenance | 3.1.10 |
| Inspection on heat treatment plants | 3.1.11 |
| Hazards associated with heat treatment in industrial furnaces employing air or process gas atmospheres; corresponding measures | 3.2 |
| Workrooms and work areas | 3.2.1 |
| Supply of energy and media | 3.2.2 |
| Methanol tank | 3.2.3 |
| Supply of ammonia | 3.2.4 |
| Liquefied petroleum gas tank | 3.2.5 |
| Liquid nitrogen tank | 3.2.6 |
| Storage and refilling of quenching oils | 3.2.7 |
| Discharge of waste gases | 3.2.8 |
| Operation of furnace plants | 3.2.9 |
| Handling of hardening material and fixtures | 3.2.10 |
| Formation of explosive atmospheres | 3.2.11 |
| Hot surfaces and cryogenic gases | 3.2.12 |
| Operation of oil baths | 3.2.13 |
| Hazards associated with salt baths and measures to be taken | 3.3 |
| Requirements for workrooms and work areas | 3.3.1 |
| Areas in the proximity of salt baths | 3.3.2 |
| Storage of and activities involving heat treatment salts | 3.3.3 |
| Handling of molten salts | 3.3.4 |
| Draining and cleaning salt baths | 3.3.5 |
| Maintenance work and tests on salt baths | 3.3.6 |
| Process gas furnaces employing salt quenching baths | 3.3.7 |
| Particular requirements associated with heat treatment of aluminium or wrought aluminium alloys in nitrite/nitrate salt baths | 3.3.8 |
| Further sources of information | 4 |
| References | 4.1 |
| Annex: Structural requirements set out in DGUV Regel 109-007 (concerning guidelines for the heat treatment of steel and other heavy metals in salt baths; formerly BGR 153) | 4.2 |
| Annex: Structural requirements set out in DGUV Vorschrift 59 concerning the heat treatment of aluminium and wrought aluminium alloys in nitrate salt baths (formerly BGV D14) | 4.3 |