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3. Supervisory Inspection Agency and Supervisory Inspectors

 

APPENDIX 1 : Supervisory Inspection Outline



Chapter 1

General Provisions

Article 1

This rule is formulated in accordance with the Supervision Administration Regulation for Manufacture Licensing of Boiler and Pressure Vessel (hereinafter referred to as Administration Regulation) to strengthen the supervisory inspection for safety performance of boiler and pressure vessel products and ensure effective supervisory inspection.



Article 2

This rule is applicable to supervisory inspection for safety performance of boiler and pressure vessel products and their parts listed in the Administration Regulation.



Article 3

The supervisory inspection for safety performance of the boiler and pressure vessel products produced by domestic manufacturer shall be performed by the qualified inspection agency accredited by Special Equipment Safety Supervision Department of Provincial Quality and Technical Supervision Bureau (hereinafter referred to as supervisory inspection agency) at the place where the manufacturer is
located.
Supervisory inspection for safety performance of boiler and pressure vessel products produced by manufacturer outside China shall be performed by the qualified inspection agency accredited by Special Equipment safety supervision Department under the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People’s Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as AQSIQ). Supervisory
inspection agency should supervise and inspect the products that are within their qualified scope.



Article 4

Boiler and pressure vessel manufacturer receiving supervisory inspection (hereinafter referred to as supervised manufacturers) must hold manufacture license for boiler and/or pressure vessel or obtain the approval for trail-produced the products from Special Equipment Safety Supervision Department at provincial or national.
Supervisory inspection of boiler and pressure vessel products shall be performed on the site and in the course of manufacturing. The supervisory inspection is a verification inspection to the acceptable products being inspected by the supervised manufacturers themselves (hereinafter referred to as self-inspection). The supervisory inspection shall not be taken the place of the self-inspection of the supervised
manufacturers. The supervisory inspection agency shall be responsible for the quality of the supervisory inspection they have undertaken.
Supervisory inspection for safety performance of the boiler and pressure vessel products produced by the manufacturers outside China may be performed after the products arrive at the border, if supervisory inspection on the production site is not arranged or is inconvenient.



Article 5

The supervisory inspection shall base on the Regulations and Rules, such as,

- Technical Supervision Regulation for Safety of Steam Boiler,

- Regulation on the Safety Supervision of Heating Boiler,

- Regulation on the Safety Supervision of Organic Fluid Boiler,

- Supervision Regulation on the Safety Technology for Pressure Vessel,

- Regulation on the Safety Supervision of Ultrahigh Pressure Vessel,

- Rules on the Safety Supervision of Baric Oxygen Chamber for Medical Treatment,

- Regulation on the Safety Supervision of Liquefied Gas Tank Car,

- Regulation on the Safety Supervision of Gas Cylinder,

- Regulation on the Safety Supervision of Dissolved Acetylene Gas Cylinder, and existing related standards, specifications and design documents, etc..



Article 6

The supervisory inspection include both the supervisory inspection of the items concerning safety performance of boilers and pressure vessels during manufacturing and the implementation of quality system for boilers and pressure vessels production of the supervised manufacturer.



Article 7

During the course of supervisory inspection, if any disagreement occurs between the supervised manufacturer and the supervisory inspection agency, the supervised manufacturers in China should submit the case to the local safety supervision department at city or above where the manufacturers are located. If necessary, supervised manufacturers can appeal to the superior Safety Supervision Department. The supervised manufacturers outside China should appeal to the Safety Supervision Department of AQSIQ.



Chapter 2

Items and Methods of Supervisory Inspection

Article 8

The items and requirements of on-site supervisory inspection for safety performance of boilers and pressure vessel products refer to the Outline for Safety Performance Supervisory Inspection of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Products (Appendix 1, hereinafter referred to as Supervisory Inspection Outline) and the Supervisory Inspection Items for Safety Performance of Boiler and Pressure Vessel
Products (Appendix 2, hereinafter referred to as Supervisory Inspection Items).



Article 9

The Supervisory Inspection Items of boiler and pressure vessel products are classified into Category A and Category B.
For the items of Category A, the supervisory inspector must conduct supervisory inspection on the site and should sign on the related testifying documents provided by the supervised manufacturer (including inspection report, recording forms and cards;
similarly hereinafter). If the item has not been verified via supervisory inspection, the product cannot be transferred to the next working process
For the items of Category B, The supervisory inspector may conduct supervisory inspection on the site. If the supervisor is not on the site, he/she should check and sign on the related testifying documents provided by the supervised manufacturer to validate the self-inspection of the manufacturer.



Article 10

The items and requirements listed in the Supervisory Inspection Outline and in the Supervisory Inspection Items are the general requirements for supervisory inspection for safety performance of boiler and pressure vessel products. The supervisory inspection agency may make proper adjustments to the not applicable items and contents according to the actual situation of the articles, materials, structures, and manufacturing technology of boiler and pressure vessel products.



Article 11

The safety performance of boilers and pressure vessel products should be supervisory inspected one by one.



Chapter 3

Supervisory Inspection Agency and Supervisory Inspectors


Article 12

The supervisory inspection agency should draft up and placard the Supervisory Inspection Outline, procedures on supervisory inspection and personnel engaging in supervisory inspection (hereinafter referred to as supervisory inspector) and their qualified items to the supervised manufacturer.



Article 13

The supervisory inspection agency should strengthen management on its supervisory inspectors, conducting training on them, examining and checking their supervisory inspection work regularly, prevent and rectify in time the dereliction of duty.



Article 14

The supervisory inspector should have the certificates with related qualified items issued by the Safety Supervision Department at provincial or national.



Article 15

The supervisory inspectors should commit their duties, strictly observe disciplines, guarantee inspection quality, take good care of the technical documents offered by the supervised manufacturer and keep them secret.



Article 16

When the supervised manufacturer makes such general mistakes of the implementation of its quality system or the safety performance of its products against the related rules, the inspector should give out the Work Liaison Sheet of Safety Performance Supervisory Inspection of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Products (Appendix 3, hereinafter referred to as Supervisory Inspection Liaison Sheet) to the supervised manufacturer. If the mistakes are serious, the supervisory inspection agency should give out the Notice on Safety Performance Supervisory Inspection of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Products (Appendix 4, hereinafter referred to as Supervisory Inspection Notice) to the supervised manufacturer. Besides, the supervisory inspection agency should report to the Safety Supervision Department at city or above at the place, where the supervised manufacturer is located, if it has issued a Supervisory Inspection Notice to a domestic manufacturer. If the Supervisory Inspection Notice is issued to the manufacturer outside China, The supervisory inspection agency should report to the Safety Supervision Department of AQSIQ at
the same time. If the supervised manufacturer refuses to accept the idea in Supervisory Inspection Notice, the supervisory inspection agency should report to the Safety Supervision Department at provincial or national in time.



Article 17

The supervisory inspector should fill in the Supervisory Inspection Item Form conscientiously (attached with related testifying data if necessary) The Form should be kept on file for at least five years.



Article 18

The supervisory inspection agency should summarize in time the testimony about products, which have passed the supervisory inspection, issue the Supervisory Inspection Certificate for Safety Performance of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Products one by one (or by batch for gas cylinders) (Appendix 5, hereinafter referred to as Supervisory Inspection Certificate,), stamp the supervisory inspection steel seal on each product's name plate or at the shoulder (or shielding) of each gas cylinder.



Chapter 4

The Supervised Manufacturer



Article 19



Article 20

I. Documents on quality system (including quality manual, procedures, management rules, documents on appointment and dismiss of responsible persons, and quality information feedback data).

II. The list of qualified welders engaged in the welding of boiler and pressure vessel products (including qualified items, terms of validity and symbol stamp numbers).

III. The list of staff engaged in quality inspection of boiler and pressure vessel products.

IV. The list of staff engaged in non-destructive examination (including qualified items, qualified level and terms of validity).

V. The boiler and pressure vessel design data, technological documents, inspection data, and the list of welding procedure qualifications.

VI. Monthly production plan for boiler and pressure vessel products.



Article 21



Article 22



Article 23



Chapter 5

Supplementary Articles

Article 24

The supervised manufacturer should pay fees for supervisory inspection to the supervisory inspection agency in time in accordance with the fee rules of provincial or national.



Article 25

AQSIQ is responsible for the interpretation of this rule.



Article 26

This rule will take effect since January 1, 2004. Simultaneously, the Rules on the Supervisory Inspection of the Safety performance of Boiler Products issued by AQSIQ on June 22, 2001 and the Rules on the Supervisory Inspection of the Safety Performance of Pressure Vessel Products and the Rules on the Supervisory Inspection of the Safety Performance of Gas Cylinders both of which were issued by Former Ministry of Labor on August 2, 1990 will be annulled.