Industrial furnaces and associated processing equipment — Safety requirements for steel converter and associated equipment

This document applies for new steel converter and its associated equipment (hereinafter referred to as converter plant) used in the process of carbon or stainless steel making as defined in 3.1 and illustrated in Annex B.

This document deals with significant hazards, hazardous situations and events relevant to the converter plant. It covers the intended use and foreseeable misuse.

This document specifies the safety requirements to be met during design, pre-assembly, transport, site-assembly, commissioning, operation, maintenance (as described in Clause 5) and decommissioning/dis-assembly of the equipment.

Assembly does not include erection because national regulations, e.g. national civil engineering laws and regulations or occupational health and safety regulations contain such information.

This document applies to:

Steel converter and its associated equipment (see Annex B, Figure B.1 for the oxygen steelmaking process

— from charging hot metal/liquid steel and scrap;

— via oxygen refining and stirring;

— temperature measurement and sampling equipment;

— up to tapping including slag retaining device;

— cooling systems;

— maintenance devices (e.g. relining device, tap ho