Quality control of the workshops, the Danish approach

Abstract

To fulfil European legislation, inspection of sprayers in Denmark started in 2014. The Danish Environment Protection Agency has authorised approximately 120 workshops with educated inspectors to carry out the inspections. It was a priority to implement an IT solution to cover all inspection reports, data about the workshops and inspectors as well as all data on the inspection equipment. It was chosen to translate and modify the IT system SYS that has been developed and used in the Netherlands. In SYS statistics from performed inspections by each workshop and each inspector can be compared with country average as regards repairs made during inspections. Statistics reports on workshop repairs are made on regular basis and these are discussed with inspectors and workshop managers during visits at the workshops. As types, brands, age and condition of sprayers differ between the sprayers inspected at different workshops there are often good reasons why number and type of repairs differ between workshops. The statistic report are however good for discussions with workshops.