Technical rules are recommendations and technical suggestions, which recommend a way to the adherence to a law, to a regulation, a technical operational sequence etc. They are not legal rules and have thereby also not the character of laws.

If these recommendations are kept, is to be usually assumed the plant the state of the art was operated accordingly. In the case of an accident the employer can prove that no negligence to it is to be accused.

The current technical rules could be regarded so far as "state of the art ", because they were subject to a permanent adjustment to the technical progress. With the abolition the steam boiler, receiver and are changed the TRD, TRB, TRR, TRSK, TRG any longer and are not adapted somt also not for more the state of the art. They are replaced by the technical rules working reliability regulation TRBS, which does not describe technical details however after the new conception any longer. In order to keep further the state of the art, further regulations (EEC guidelines, EN standards, recommendations of federations {VDI, VDE, VDMA, AGI}, information of the professional associations, guidelines for interpretations etc.) must be consulted. There the possibility of being ensured the industrial safety of being achieved by means of different beginnings can be described, must this in the endangerment evaluation.

With the facts of the building endangerment "§ 319 StGB, with the faultlessness of a work "§, refer 641a exp. 3 sentence 4 BGB with the obligations of the manufacturer "§ 3 exp. 1 sentence 2 (equipment safety law) to "the generally recognized rules of the technology "

with the precaution against harmful environmental effects "§ 5 exp. 1 No. 2 BundesimmissionsschutzG (federal immission control law) on "the state of the art ",

during the permission of plants "§ 7 exp. 2 No. 3 AtomG (atomic law) on "the conditions of science and technology "

referred in local statutes frequently direct to a certain DIN standard, e.g. with the drainage of properties

in the dangerous material regulation to certain technical rules of dangerous materials (TRGS) one refers.

The rules for the prevention of accidents (UVV, BGV) represent an exception the accident insurance carrier, the professional associations, these are for a limited range (member enterprises) autonomous right and at the same time technical rule.

Also European Union guidelines actually represent no legal rules, can however become, since a conversion to the national right of the respective member states is accomplished and/or a reference to it is inserted. Particularly in the work and health protection technical rules for the operational conversion are used.

Examples of technical rules are the working place guidelines, technical rules of dangerous materials or DIN regulations.

TRGS technical rules for dangerous materials

TRD technical rules for steam boilers

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• Workplace regulations
• Working place guidelines
• Technical rules for dangerous materials (TRGS)
• Technical rules for biological working materials (TRBA)
• Technical rules for working reliability (TRBS)
• Rules to the work protection on building sites (RAB)
• On-line tools for the dangerous material management

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