Your
compliance issues
Whatever your field of activity, as an operator, owner or employer, it is your responsibility to ensure that your machines, equipment and facilities are in full compliance with regulations at all times. This imperative is indeed a major human and legal challenge.
Apave Monaco's teams will accompany you whatever your objective is:
- Comply with regulations and protect yourself from legal risks.
- Ensure the health and safety of your employees, tenants or users.
- Reduce failures, downtime and other malfunctions on your equipment.
- Improve the performance of your equipment, facilities, and your entire business.
- Extend the life of your equipment and facilities.
- Respect the regulatory periodicity schedules.
- Control costs related to the maintenance of your facilities.
- Limit the risk of accidents that could jeopardize health and safety at work and harm the environment.
- Protect the reputation of your organization.
- Carry out preventive actions to keep up with complex and rapidly changing regulations.
Our
fields of intervention
We are able to carry out conformity controls, punctually or periodically, for all your equipment, installations, buildings and processes, whatever they are:
- Electrical installations
- Fire safety installations (infrared thermography, sprinklers, automatic extinguishing, smoke extraction, verification of heat potentials...)
- Lightning installations (lightning rods...)
- Mechanical and lifting equipment (elevators, freight elevators, PMR elevators, handling equipment, hoists...)
- HVAC equipment (heating, ventilation and air conditioning)
- Sports equipment or playgrounds (basketball hoops, soccer cages...)
- Pressurized equipment (compressors, cubes, waterproofing...)
- Anchor points, scaffolding and lifelines
- Industrial machinery
- Medical fluids in hospitals
- Radiation protection (prevention of waves and radiation)
- Thermal installations (sealing of gas networks)
We are at your side throughout the life cycle of your equipment: during the design, commissioning, operation, maintenance and end-of-life phases.
Thanks to the specific and multi-sector expertise of our experts, we can also offer you, in addition to your needs in terms of regulatory compliance, technical assistance services tailored to meet your current needs:
- Expertise, analysis of malfunctions (network analysis, electromagnetic compatibility, etc.)
- Diagnosis and preventive maintenance (infrared thermography, ultrasound measurements, etc.)
- Follow-up of works, acceptance, functional tests
- Assistance in resolving non-conformities
- Lightning risk analysis and technical study
- IRVE, photovoltaics, risers, etc.
Why entrust the compliance of
your equipment and installations
to Apave Monaco?
Established for more than 20 years in the Principality, Apave Monaco offers you a local support to answer your compliance issues.
Our team includes 30 experienced technicians and engineers with 10 to 25 years of experience. These high-level experts are equipped with cutting-edge technical expertise, operational excellence and a solid knowledge of the regulations specific to your sector of activity. This is the guarantee of a high quality intervention, aligned to your needs, whatever the equipment, the installation or the building concerned.
We also make it a point of honour to be highly responsive and to adapt to your schedule and your specific requests.
We have been accompanying major players on the Monegasque scene for two decades:
Your questions about
the compliance of your equipment and installations:
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How do I know what my regulatory compliance obligations are?
The regulatory obligations relating to installations and equipment are specified in the Monegasque Ministerial Order n°2018-1079 of November 21, 2018 relating to the general principles of safety against the risks of fire and panic in buildings.
In addition, it is important to carry out a rigorous regulatory watch in order to stay abreast of the slightest changes in legislation. -
What periodic checks do I have to perform as an owner or operator of an ERP?
Here is the regulatory periodicity relating to the installations and equipment within an Establishment Receiving the Public (restaurant, hotel, school...):- 1st, 2nd and 3rd category establishments
Electrical installations Every years Infrared thermography examination of electrical installations Every years - 4th and 5th category establishments
Electrical installations Every 3 years - Type L establishments
Smoke extraction system for ERP type L Every 3 years - Establishments of all types and categories
Elevators, freight elevators, escalators, moving walkways Every years Automatic fire detection system (FDS), fire safety system (FDS+FSS) Every 3 years Automatic detection system such as sprinkler, deluge system, water curtains.
Automatic extinguishing system of another type (gas, water mist, etc...)Every 3 years Combustible and/or toxic gas detection system Every 3 years Air quality and dust control equipment Every 3 years Fire department radio communication retransmission system Every 3 years Lightning rods Every 3 years Tanks for the storage of flammable liquids (hydraulic test)** Every 5 years Medical gas distribution installation Every years -
What periodic inspections should I perform as an owner or operator of an industrial or business establishment?
Here is the regulatory periodicity for installations and equipment within an industrial or activity establishment:
- Industrial establishments
Electrical installations Every year Infrared thermography examination of electrical installations Every year Elevators, freight elevators, escalators, moving walkways Every 6 months - Establishments of activity of less than 100 people
Electrical installations Every 3 year Elevators, freight elevators, escalators, moving walkways Every 6 months - Establishments of activity with more than 100 people
Electrical installations Every year Infrared thermography examination of electrical installations Every year Elevators, freight elevators, escalators, moving walkways Every year - Establishments of all types
Automatic fire detection system (FDS), fire safety system (FDS+FSS) Every 3 years Automatic detection system such as sprinkler, deluge system, water curtains.
Automatic extinguishing system of another type (gas, water mist, etc...)Every 3 years Combustible and/or toxic gas detection system Every 3 years Air quality and dust control equipment Every 3 years Fire department radio communication retransmission system Every 3 years Lightning rods Every 5 years Tanks for the storage of flammable liquids (hydraulic test)** Every 5 years Medical gas distribution installation Every years -
What periodic inspections should I perform as the owner or operator of a residential, office or business building?
As an owner or manager of a building for residential use, a professional building or a building for tertiary use, here is the regulatory periodicity to respect to ensure the conformity of your installations and equipment:
Elevators, freight elevators, escalators, moving walkways Every 3 years Automatic fire detection system (FDS), fire safety system (FDS+FSS) Every 3 years Automatic detection system such as sprinkler, deluge system, water curtains.
Automatic extinguishing system of another type (gas, water mist, etc...)Every 3 years Combustible and/or toxic gas detection system Every 3 years Air quality and dust control equipment Every 3 years Fire department radio communication retransmission system Every 3 years Lightning rods Every 5 years Tanks for the storage of flammable liquids (hydraulic test)** Every 5 years Medical gas distribution installation Every years -
What periodic inspections must I perform as the owner or operator of a high-rise or very tall building?
As an owner or operator of a high-rise building (more than 28 m or 50 m in height) or a high-rise building (more than 200 m in height), here are the regulatory periods to be respected concerning your installations and equipment:
Elevators, freight elevators, escalators, moving walkways Every 6 months Elevators without priority call device, freight elevators, escalators, moving walkways Every years Electrical installations (excluding private areas) Every years Smoke extraction system Every years Assessment of the heat load (excluding living quarters) Every 5 years Automatic fire detection system (FDS), fire safety system (FDS+FSS) Every 3 years Automatic detection system such as sprinkler, deluge system, water curtains.
Automatic extinguishing system of another type (gas, water mist, etc...)Every 3 years Combustible and/or toxic gas detection system Every 3 years Air quality and dust control equipment Every 3 years Fire department radio communication retransmission system Every 3 years Lightning rods Every 5 years Tanks for the storage of flammable liquids (hydraulic test)** Every 5 years Medical gas distribution installation Every years -
What periodic inspections should I perform as a parking lot owner or operator?
Here is the periodicity that applies regarding the verification of equipment and installations within a parking lot:
Electrical installations Every years Automatic fire detection system (FDS), fire safety system (FDS+FSS) Every 3 years Automatic detection system such as sprinkler, deluge system, water curtains.
Automatic extinguishing system of another type (gas, water mist, etc...)Every 3 years Combustible and/or toxic gas detection system Every 3 years Air quality and dust control equipment Every 3 years Fire department radio communication retransmission system Every 3 years Tanks for the storage of flammable liquids (hydraulic test)** Every 5 years -
What types of equipment and installations can you work on?
Our engineers and technicians are able to work on all types of equipment, installations and buildings in the Principality:
- establishments open to the public
- industrial buildings
- residential buildings
- office buildings
- buildings for tertiary use
- electrical and fire installations
- work equipment
- medical devices
- thermal installations
- sports equipment
- playgrounds
- elevators
- freight elevators
- escalators
- moving walkways
- lightning rods ...
Our services are aimed at all types of organizations, in the public or private sector: local authorities; hotels; hospitals; very small businesses; SMEs...