The dangerous material regulation (GefStoffV) is a regulation to the protection from dangerous materials (dangerous materials) in the German industrial safety. The regulation authorization is contained in the chemical law (ChemG). Since 2005 also the industrial safety law is legal basis for the GefStoffV.

The dangerous material regulation was already compiled 1983 and issued for the first time 1986. Since then it was several times changed:

• 1993 by the decree of an independent chemical prohibition regulation
• 1999 by the introduction of the sliding reference technology for EEC domestic market guidelines.
• 2004 in recent amending (December 2004) were fundamentally revised the dangerous material regulation. On 29 December 2004 in the federal law gazette published new dangerous material regulation came into force on 1 January 2005 and serves in particular the conversion of the EEC guideline 98/24/EG (dangerous material guideline) into German right. An important innovation in relation to the old dangerous material regulation is the new endangerment evaluation and the protection stage model. With the entry into force of the dangerous material regulation 2005 a new health-based limit value concept was introduced. Therefore have in the TRGS 900 led technical arranging concentrations (TRK values) no more legal basis. All remaining limit values (health-based MAK values) are continued to use up to the appearance of the new TRGS 900. These are proven as AGW values (job limit values).

During the endangerment evaluation are endangerments

• by physicochemical characteristics (in particular fire and dangers of explosion)
• by toxic characteristics and
• by special characteristics in connection with certain activities

to judge independently.

on the basis of the marking of the dangerous material the work with dangerous materials is divided in four protection stages (protection conception of levels):

• Protection stage 1: Minimum-took
• Protection stage 2: Standard protection stage for activities with dangerous materials
• Protection stage 3: Additional application with work with poisonous and very poisonous materials
• Protection stage 4: Additional application with work with carcinogenic, hereditarygood-changing and fertility-damaging materials (CMR materials).

From it certain massnahmenpakete for the employer/entrepreneur, which refer also to the examination of the effectiveness of met technical preventive measures, result:

• Protection stage 1: Examination of the effectiveness of technical measures (at least every 3 years)
• Protection stage 2: Measurement or equivalent evaluation procedure
• Protection stage 3: Measurement or equivalent checking methods
• Protection stage 4: Measurements, in particular for the early determination of increased expositions due to an unexpected event or an accident

It is only meaningful to assign measuring points in accordance with "§ 9 exp. 6 GefStoffV to which applies:

• Technical instruction and necessary mechanisms
• accredited measuring point (so far: "„of the countries measuring point recognized "“)

• Protection stage 1 applies to attractive (Xi), to injurious to health (Xn) and to corrosive (C) of dangerous materials with low exposition, if the measures of the protection stage 1 (TRGS 500) are sufficient.
• Protection stage 2 applies additionally to the same dangerous materials with higher exposition, if protection stage 1 is not sufficient after the result of an endangerment evaluation any longer.
• Protection stage 3 seizes additionally, if very poisonous (T+) and poisonous (T) dangerous materials are involved.
• Protection stage 4 applies additionally, if cancer-producing, hereditarygood-changing and fertility-damaging dangerous materials (category 1 or 2) are used.

Sections of the GefStoffV:

First section - range of application and definitions

Purpose of the GefStoffV - "§1 (1) GefStoffV

Protection of humans and the environment from harmful effects

• Industrial safety
• Consumer protection (Inverkehrbringen)
• Environmental protection

Range of application - "§1 GefStoffV

• for all dangerous materials and preparing in the sense "§ of the 3a (1) ChemG and for those, which possess other chronically damaging characteristics, or are combustible
• Materials, preparing and products, which would be to be marked 76/769/EWG, 96/59/EG or 1999/45/EG after the guidelines additionally
• Biocide products, those not the danger characteristics to exhibit and biological working materials, which are in circulation brought as biocide
• Restrictions are to be examined on the basis "§ 1 (2) to (5) GefStoffV in individual cases: e.g. GefStoffV does not apply to biological working materials, the prohibitions to certain chemicals and the rules to handling dangerous materials applies not for Untertage and in households.
• In the case of doubt applies: An employee must work with a dangerous material or a dangerous material must commercially in circulation be brought.
• Exceptions after "§ 20 (1) GefStoffV by the responsible authority on written request in just as effective measures or with a not reasonable hardness. After "§ 20 (2) GefStoffV no marking for the Inverkehrbringen with small quantity without endangerment and not high-inflammatory, explosion-dangerously, corrosive, biocide or CMR material

Definition - "§3 GefStoffV

• Activities (in former times: Handling) are all-comprehensively "“regulated "„(inclusive. Serving and monitoring activities); also transport (here: general preventive measures consider)
• Job limit value (AGW) temporally weighted average concentration of a material in air regarding a given reference period; an excess can have acute or chronic harmful effects (endangerment = probability of entrance x extent of the damage)
• old materials number > 100.000
• new materials (deadline xx.09.1981) number: approx. 3500
• Employer it stands the entrepreneur without persons employed directly
• Person employed: for them stand in home working"… as well as pupils, students and other persons, in particular at scientific mechanisms active ones, which accomplish activities with dangerous materials, directly.

Second section - dangerous material information

Danger characteristics - "§ 4 GefStoffV

the term "“dangerous material"” out "§ 19 ChemG (authorization basis) dangerous materials after "§ 3a of the ChemG; explosive substances and preparing; Materials and preparing, while whose handling dangerous materials can develop; other dangerous chemical working materials; for materials, preparing and products, which pathogens transferred (see in addition also: Gefahrensymbole)

Obligations of the manufacturers or importers - "§"§ 4, 13, 15-17 ChemG, "§ 5 GefStoffV

• Classify from materials to RL 67/548/EWG, from preparing to RL 1999/45/EG, from biocide products (biol. Working materials) after "§"§ 3 and 4 BiostoffV
• Correct marking and packing, if necessary safety data sheet
• manufacture after the state of the art
• Manufacture and use prohibitions consider
• Announce

Safety data sheet - "§6GefStoffV

Third section - general preventive measures

• Endangerment evaluation
• Protection conception of levels: Protection stage 1 and 2
• Camps - "§ 8 (6) to (8) GefStoffV: no danger for humans and environment; in containers keep, which with food be confounded cannot, clearly arranged and not in direct proximity of medicaments, life or feeds do not store; applies also to wastes; T+ and T characterized materials are under catch or only for expert persons accessible to store (does not apply to petrol at gas stations) - "§ 10 (3) GefStoffV

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