The Pressure Vessel Inspectorate's primary concern is to prevent accidents, disruptions and damage during the operation of pressure plants. These efforts are focused on commercial operators who are required to guarantee safe workplaces in accordance with Art. 82 para. 1 UGV and Art. 6 para. 1 ArG. The Pressure Vessel Inspectorate also offers support to private operators.

The Pressure Vessel Inspectorate is in the public eye like no other inspectorate within SVTI – after all, as the founding inspectorate of SVTI it is also the oldest and has more than 9,500 members. This number should also continue growing in the future, as well.

By no later than 2015 we intend to be the preferred service provider for operators of pressure plants. We offer inspections and other customised services related to inspections which ensure the safe operation of pressure plants (assemblies).

We have expanded our area of expertise from simple pressure equipment and vessels to the entire pressure plant and can now offer a full range of services to ensure the safe operation of pressure assemblies. By performing inspections and inspection-related services such as safety assessments, risk analyses and hazard analyses during plant construction or conversion, we make an active contribution towards workplace safety, systems safety and investment protection at businesses. This allows operators to concentrate fully on their core competencies such as the production of goods or the supply of energy.

We are the nation's conscience when it comes to matters of safety. As an independent specialist organisation for boiler plants and pressure equipment, we offer our customers safety through our expertise, know-how and problem-solving skills.

• We are the mandated specialist organisation for pressure equipment and technical plants and we help guarantee their compliant operation.
• We are a competent partner and an independent third party; we advise, monitor, inspect and check. We are accredited and help operators ensure compliance when they place their equipment into service.
• We offer our services, know-how and knowledge of the pressure equipment market to the authorities whose task it is to enforce laws governing workplace safety, fire safety, etc.

Correct positioning in the market underpins and communicates this mission externally:

Safe in operation