125 years - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1997 - 7 Shilling

An essential concern of every community is technical security. The right to safe human life with technology is, as it were, a fundamental right. Hiebei it must be the goal to use the benefits of technology as optimally as possible and their disadvantages, in particular the threats, which assume that exclude as possible. This view was also well-known men of the Austrian economy, as they founded a monitoring organization for steam and pressure plants in the context of the great wave of industrialization in the last century 1872, when an average of 50 people died each month due to boiler explosions. Producers and operators of such hazardous equipment met as part of the association and together set those quality standards for the design, manufacture and operation of printing facilities, which banned the dangers surprisingly quickly. Following the technical development, the then established monitoring organization soon dealt with the inspection of elevators, cranes, hoists, gates, motor vehicles, electrical equipment and devices of all kinds, environmental protection, electromagnetic compatibility and much more. The "Technical Inspection Association" (TÜV) Austria today has specialists of all kinds working from 10 branches in Austria. The versatility is already apparent from the name of the business units: elevators, pressure equipment, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, lifting and conveying technology, medical technology, environment / energy / traffic, materials testing / technical physics, certification / management systems / trade regulations. There are also subsidiaries in Germany and abroad, such as in Athens, Budapest and Munich. He is accredited for most subject areas and in Brussels notified testing, monitoring and certification body of Austria. The TUV Austria has been the competent, independent partner of the Austrian economy in terms of technical safety, quality of environmental protection and resource management for more than 125 years. Right from the beginning, he keeps his finger on the pulse of the economy and therefore knows which technical services are required.