NA 008 Mining Standards Committee
The standards committee mining (FABERG) is the responsible committee for the Standardization in the field of mining. NA 008 Mining (FABERG) is an agency of DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V., Berlin. As a joint establishment of the German mining industry, it is supported by Vereinigung Rohstoffe und Bergbau e.V., Berlin and managed by a governing body. From a management and staff point of view, it is associated with DMT DeutscheMontanTechnologie für Rohstoff, Energie, Umwelt e.V. of Essen. FABERG is responsible for national standardisation in the field of mining and acts as a representative for this field in European (CEN) and international (ISO) standardisation efforts, supporting the introduction of standards in its specialised field for any practice affected by these and is instrumental in establishing the German standards system. Whereas during the first years of FABERG's existence, dimensional and type standards were primarily set up, these were increasingly followed by quality and requirement-based standards. Personal safety equipment, too, was subject to standardisation at an early date. Within the scope of its international standardisation work FABERG is holding the Secretariat of ISO/TC 82 "Mining". In addition to this, FABERG is responsible for German representation in ISO/TC 27 "Solid Mineral Fuels". Within the scope of its CEN work the Secretariats of CEN/TC 196/WG 3 "Hydraulically Powered Support" and CEN/TC 148/WG 7 "Continuous handling equipment and systems for opencast lignite mining" were allocated to FABERG, dealing with standardization projects for the implementation of the EU machinery directive. In CEN/TC 305 "Potentially explosive atmospheres - Explosion prevention and protection" FABERG co-operates with "Safety Design Principles Standards Committee" of DIN dealing with standardization projects for the implementation of the EU ATEX directive. In addition to standardization work, also Operating Recommendations for Mining (Bergbau-Betriebsblätter) are published by FABERG. These are recommendations for the hard coal mining industry set up by professionals, based on the same principles, which are mandatory for wording DIN standards. Bergbau-Betriebsblätter are published by DMT DeutscheMontanTechnologie für Rohstoff, Energie, Umwelt e.V. and may be ordered directly from FABERG under the address specified above.
