Evers Fachlexikon
Abbreviations
This section contains the most frequently used abbreviations found on the Evers homepage and in the Evers catalogue, together with their "translations".
Accident prevention regulations (UVV)
The accident prevention regulations (UVV) represent the binding obligations regarding health and safety at work for each company and each insured person.
Acrylic
is a generic term for chemical substances, which are characterised by the acrylic group (CH2=CH–COR) (e.g. acrylic acid or acrylic-acid ester) or polymers of these substances.
ATEX
The term ATEX stands for the French abbreviation of "Atmosphère explosible" and is used as a synonym for the two European Community Directives concerning explosion protection, namely the ATEX Product Directive 94/9/EC and the ATEX Worker Protection Directive 1999/92/EC.