The Vitebsk Regional Directorate of the Department for Supervision of Safe Operations in Industry of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus (Gospromnadzor) reminds!

   From June 01, 2023, the new "Rules for ensuring industrial safety in the field of gas supply" and "Rules for ensuring industrial safety of equipment operating under excess pressure" have come into force.

   In accordance with the requirements of the instruction "On training and knowledge verification on industrial safety issues" (approved by the Ministry of Emergency Situations Resolution No. 31 dated July 06, 2016), no later than one month from the date of entry into force of legislative acts in the field of industrial safety, an extraordinary knowledge verification must be carried out by the Gosgortekhnadzor commission for:

- managers and specialists:

who exercise management and are appointed in the prescribed manner as responsible for carrying out work when performing work and (or) providing services that constitute activities in the field of industrial safety;

performing work that constitutes activities in the field of industrial safety;

- employees of the industrial safety service (industrial safety engineer, responsible person entrusted with relevant duties for ensuring industrial safety);

- persons responsible for safe operation;

- teachers (to the extent of the requirements of legislative acts in the field of industrial safety that they teach).

     For operating organizations, before putting seasonal gas-using equipment into operation (agricultural gas-using units, heating boilers, etc.), in accordance with clause 344 of the "Rules for ensuring industrial safety in the field of gas supply", the knowledge verification of employees on industrial safety issues is one of the mandatory requirements, without which the removal of plugs and the supply of gas are not permitted.

     We also draw your attention to the fact that extraordinary knowledge verification does not cancel the periodic knowledge verification. 

Vitebsk Regional Department of the State Industrial Supervision Service.