Equipment Safety Act (2015)

This Act regulates equipment safety. The purpose of this Act is to ensure the safety of equipment and equipment-related processes. This Act regulates the putting of equipment into service, the use of equipment, and equipment work. This Act applies to equipment, putting equipment into service, use of equipment and equipment work if the equipment poses a threat to human life or health, to property or to the environment and if the prevention of the threat is not regulated by other legislation. ‘Equipment’ means a pressure, gas or electrical equipment, a machine or a technological system that consists thereof or another object whereby the energy or fluidum contained in the object or a process taking place with the same gives rise, due to its characteristics, to a threat to human life or health, property or the environment even if handled with diligence expected from a specialist.