Refrigeration systems

Draft National technical regulation on safe work of refrigeration systems; (55 page(s), in Vietnamese)

This draft National Technical Regulation prescribes requirements on occupational health and safety in the design, manufacture, importation, purchase, ownership, installation, utilization, operation, maintenance, repair, recovery and disposal of refrigeration system (including new, expanded or renovated systems from existing or used ones, systems moved to and operated in another location; systems changing from one to another refrigerants), heat pumps, absorption systems with evaporating and condensing closed-loop refrigerants according to system classification in TCVN 6104-1:2015 using refrigerants of groups B1, B2 , B2L, B3, A2, A3 and group A1 (with a loaded amount of 05 kg and above), A2L (with a loaded amount of 05 kg and above) according to the safety classification in TCVN 6739:2015

This draft National Technical Regulation excludes the following:

- Refrigeration systems that use water or air as the refrigerants.

- Refrigeration systems used in transportationvehicles.

- Water-lithium bromide vapor absorption refrigeration system

- Steam jet refrigeration systems.

This draft National Technical Regulation applies to organizations, and individuals engaged in the design, manufacture, importation, purchase, ownership, installation, utilization, operation, maintenance, repair, recovery and disposal of refrigeration systems. This draft National Technical Regulation applies to agencies, organizations and individuals engaged in evaluating, certifying, inspecting, testing and verifying the refrigeration system specified at Section 1.1 above.