These Regulations shall not apply to—

1. pipelines comprising piping or a system of piping designed for the conveyance of any fluid or substance to or from an installation (onshore or offshore) starting from and including the last isolation device located within the confines of the installation, including all the annexed equipment designed specifically for pipelines;

2. networks for the supply, distribution and discharge of water and associated equipment and headraces such as penstocks, pressure tunnels, pressure shafts for hydroelectric installations and their related specific accessories;

3. that part of a system which is only a pressure system because it is—

(a) subject to a leak test;

(b) pressurised unintentionally, such pressurisation being not reasonably foreseeable;

4. well-control equipment used in the gas, petroleum or geothermal exploration and extraction industry and in underground storage which is intended to contain and control (or both) well pressure, comprising the wellhead (Christmas tree), the blow out preventers (BOP), the piping manifolds and all their equipment upstream;

5. any pressure system which—

(a) is an electrical or telecommunications cable or is a pressurised pipe for the containment of transmission systems, e.g. for electrical power and telephone cables,

(b) is an enclosure for high-voltage electrical equipment such as switchgear, control gear, transformers, and rotating machines,

(c) contains sulphur hexafluoride gas and forms an integral part of high or medium voltage electrical apparatus,

(d) consists of a water filled fluid coupling and used in power transmission;

6. equipment comprising casings or machinery where the dimensioning, choice of material and manufacturing rules are based primarily on requirements for sufficient strength, rigidity and stability to meet the static and dynamic operational effects or other operational characteristics and for which pressure is not a significant design factor including:

(a) engines including turbines and internal combustion engines, and

(b) steam engines, gas/steam turbines, turbo-generators, compressors, pumps and actuating devices;

7. blast furnaces including the furnace cooling system, hot-blast recuperators, dust extractors and blast-furnace exhaust-gas scrubbers and direct reducing cupolas, including the furnace cooling, gas converters and pans for melting, re-melting, de-gassing and casting of steel and non-ferrous metals;

8. hydraulic systems in work equipment, except for accumulators;

9. a pressure system which forms part of the equipment of ships, rockets, aircraft, hovercraft or hydrofoil, and mobile off-shore units, as well as equipment specifically intended for installation on board or the propulsion thereof;

10. a pressure system which forms part of, or is intended to form part of, a weapons system;

11. (a) pressure systems and equipment intended for the functioning of a wheeled, tracked or rail mounted vehicle, such as equipment forming part of any braking, control or suspension system;

(b) pressure equipment associated with gas propulsion or other operating systems on motor vehicles or trailers;

12. pressure equipment consisting of a flexible casing, e.g. tyres, air cushions, inflatable craft and other similar pressure equipment;

13. exhaust and inlet silencers;

14. radiators and pipes used for space heating;

15. any water cooling system on an internal combustion engine or on a compressor;

16. equipment to which Regulation 56 of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Quarries) Regulations 2008 (S.I. No. 28 of 2008) applies;

17. equipment to which Regulations 83 to 85 of the Mines (General) Regulations 1975 (S.I. No. 331 of 1975) apply;

18. a working chamber, manlock or an airlock within which persons work in compressed air, being work to which Part 7, Compressed Air, of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Construction) Regulations 2006 (S.I. No. 504 of 2006) applies;

19. pressure equipment to which the following apply:

(a) European Communities (Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road and Use of Transportable Pressure Equipment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. No. 349 of 2011);

(b) European Communities (Transport of Dangerous Goods by Rail) Regulations 2010 (S.I. No. 651 of 2010);

(c) Merchant Shipping (Dangerous Goods) Rules 1992 (S.I. No. 391 of 1992);

(d) Aeronautical Notice described as Aeronautical Notice NR 0.1, Issue 18, Date 01.02.2010 and issued by the Irish Aviation Authority;

(e) any statute or instrument made under a power conferred by statute or an aeronautical notice described as such and issued by the Irish Aviation Authority made for the purpose of giving effect to—

(i) a provision of the Treaties governing the European Communities or an act adopted by the European Communities, or

(ii) an international agreement to which the State is a party,

in relation to the carriage of dangerous goods by road, rail, inland waterway, sea or air or for that purpose amending the instruments or aeronautical notice referred to in subparagraph (a), (b), (c) or (d);

20. pressure equipment to which the Dangerous Substances (Storage of Liquefied Petroleum Gas) Regulations 1990 (S.I. No. 201 of 1990) apply;

21. pressure equipment to which Regulation 9 of the Safety, Health and Welfare (Offshore Installations) (Operations) Regulations 1991 (S.I. No. 16 of 1991) apply;

22. vapour compression refrigeration system incorporating compressor drive motors, including standby compressor motors, having a total installed power not exceeding 25 kW;

23. a mobile system of the type known as a slurry tanker, and containing or intended to contain agricultural slurry, and used in agriculture;

24. a portable fire extinguisher with a working pressure below 25 bar at 60°C and having a total mass not exceeding 23 kilogrammes;

25. any part of a tool or appliance designed to be held in the hand which is a pressure vessel;

26. vessels designed to contain liquids with a gas pressure above the liquid of not more than 0.5 bar;

27. any pressure system containing a relevant fluid (other than steam) if the product of the pressure in bar and internal volume in litres of its pressure vessels is in each case less than 250 bar litres;

28. pressure equipment used for diving operations;

29. self contained breathing apparatus sets.]

*Note: The period for any particular piece of equipment maybe subject to change pursuant to the application of Regulation 191(3)]

A non-exhaustive list of information referred to in Regulation 186(a)(v) is as follows—

1. The manufacturer’s name.

2. A serial number to identify the vessel.

3. The date of manufacture of the vessel.

4. The standard to which the vessel was built.

5. The following specified by the manufacturer:

(a) the maximum allowable pressure of the vessel;

(b) the minimum allowable pressure of the vessel where it is other than atmospheric;

(c) if relevant to the safe operation of the vessel, the maximum allowable temperature or the minimum allowable temperature, or both the maximum allowable temperature and the minimum allowable temperature.

6. If applicable and if different to the operating limits referred to in paragraph 5, safe operating limits specified by a competent person following an examination of the vessel by that person.]

1. The name and address of the employer, user or owner for whom the examination was made.

2. The address of the premises at which the examination was made.

3. Particulars sufficient to identify the pressure vessel including, where known, its date of manufacture.

4. Date of this examination and date of the last examination, if known.

5. The safe operating limits of the pressure vessel and any associated protective devices, indicating if the immediate cessation of the use of the pressure vessel, or part thereof, is advised.

6. The purpose of the examination including examination—

(a) after installation or assembly at a new site or new location,

(b) after repairs or modifications, or

(c) which is periodic, and where applicable, hot or cold.

7. In relation to every examination of pressure vessels and any associated protective devices and pressure accessories—

(a) identification of any part found to have a defect which is or could become a danger to persons and a description of the defect,

(b) particulars of any repair, renewal or modification required to remedy a defect found to be a danger to persons and the period within which the necessary remedial action is to be completed,

(c) in the case of a defect which is not yet but could become a danger to persons—

(i) particulars of any repair, renewal or modification required to remedy it, and

(ii) the period within which the required repair, renewal or modification should be completed,

(d) the latest date by which the next examination shall be carried out (and if the interval to the next examination is lesser or greater than the interval specified in column 2 of Part B a written justification shall be provided),

(e) where the examination included testing, particulars of any test,

(f) identification of parts not accessible for examination, and

(g) particulars of any further examination or test necessary to establish whether a pressure vessel is safe to use.

8. The name, address and qualifications of the individual making the report and, where appropriate, the name and address of the individual’s employer.]