STEEL TUBE AND PIPE HANDBOOK - February 2012

12 Qualitymanagement can consist of several stages: • certification of the quality management system in accordance with international ISO standards 9001: 2000 • certification of the quality management system in accordance with specific technical regulations • certification of products. This part consist of three areas: 1. Production certification – certification that products pro- duced in accordance with standards meet the requirements of the regulations (e.g. EU regulations) 2. Products intended for construction purposes – compliance demonstration 3. Certification of products – acknowledgement of compa- nies authorised to accept tubes that the products meet re- quirements of the respective standards SEMor EMS Environmental Management System is certified according to standard EN ISO 14 001. OHSAS 18001 OHSAS is an international Occupational Health and Safety Management System specification. Legislation Steel tubes are, depending on the purpose of their use, divided into particular groups which are subject to superior regulations of vari- ous type and strength. In EU countries are valid for several groups of products Directive and Standards. Directive are the part of national legislation. Designation of directives: • year of edition / number / EU Virtue acqiured past its edition in Official Journal EU (collection of Laws). In OJ is directive marked: • OJ L number / date Standards are valid for several groups of tubes and pipes. With respect to the aforementioned there are three distinctive types of tubes: • tubes intended for building and construction purposes • tubes intended for pressure use • tubes for machinery building Quality management system, certification, legislation The manual is, primarily, focused on providing an overview of technical parameters of steel tubes produced by Železiarne Podbre- zová. The tubes themselves as well as products and facilities whose parts consist of the tubes must also meet requirements of respec- tive state or professional regulations, rules and decrees aimed at safety of operation, health and environment protection. Also the quality management system must be in accordance with respective regulations and is subject to certification issued by authorised company. Tubes intended for building and construction purposes They are classified as final products. Procedure applied to com- pliance demonstration: • CPD Directive No. 1989/106 EU (Construction Products Direc- tive), implemented to laws and related regulations (in Slova- kia, Act No. 90/1998 Coll., in the Czech Rep. Act No. 22/ 1997 Coll.) and subsequent regulations and decrees. • Technical standard (voluntary, harmonised, e.g. EN standard). Standards specify technical requirements applied to products. • Declaration of conformity – certificate that assessed products are fully in conformity with safety requirements. Conformity marking – Ü-Zeichen will be replaced with CE-Ze- ichen. For the Slovak Republic, the designation C SK is applied at the present. CE is valid for EN 10210, EN 10219, EN 10224, EN10255. Tubes intended for pressure equipments They are classified as materials used for construction of pres- sure equipment. • PED Directive No. 1997/23 EU (Pressure Equipment Direc- tive) and its Annex 1 clause 4.3. (see page 25 too) • The directive is transposed to EN standards, which apply for example to construction of boilers and also specify the stan- dards for particular materials (previously so called Regel- werke). Example: EN – EN 12 952 • EN standards for steel tubes for pressure use – EN 10216 – 2 (standard for boiler tubes) – manufacturer’s certificate that the standards correspond to the requirement of respective regulations. Tubes for mechanical purpose and machinery building For machinery building – see Machinery Directive 98/37/EC. For deliveries of tubes for automotive industry it is necessary, so supplier is certified according to ISO/TS 16949 and (or) stan- dard of VDA series 6. ISO/TS 16949 are supplementary require- ments for use of standard ISO 9001: 2000 in automotive industry.VDA 6.1 is standard for audit of Quality – Management System. First standard was published from IATF – International Automo- tive Task Force and JAMA – Japan Automobile Manufacturers Asociation. VDA is Verband der Automobilindustie in Germany.

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