Legal Requirements On Handling And Storing Airbags And Emergency TENSIONING Retractor Units - Ah91.00-P-0004-01A

Model 906 

Legal requirements regarding handling and storage of airbags and emergency tensioning retractors, pyrotechnical engine hood lifters and pyrotechnical actuators 

All legal requirements cited below apply to the Federal Republic of Germany. In other countries, the valid national and local legal requirements must be observed.

Airbags and emergency tensioning retractors, pyrotechnical engine hood lifters, in addition to pyrotechnical actuators, are pyrotechnical objects of Category P1. Their handling, transport and storage are subject to the German Explosives Act ("Gesetz uber explosionsgefahrliche Stoffe"). Only a limited number of Category P1 pyrotechnical objects may be stored in buildings which are used for commercial purposes.

According to Attachment 6 of the annex to the 2nd Directive of the German Explosives Act, the maximum storage volumes listed in the following are permitted in commercially used buildings under consideration of certain requirements (e.g. a steel cabinet) without special approval by the responsible authority:

• Work room, 10 kg net
• Storage room, 100 kg net

The weight of the explosive material in the component for which the legal explosive permit has been granted is required for calculation:

• Each driver airbag, 0.1 kg
• Each front passenger airbag, 0.3 kg
• Each sidebag, 0.05 kg
• Each seat cushion airbag, 0.003 kg
• Each windowbag, 0.004 kg
• Each kneebag, 0.025 kg
• Each pelvisbag, 0.015 kg
• Each headbag, 0.01 kg
• Each emergency tensioning retractor and beltbag unit, 0.002 kg
• Each pyrotechnical engine hood lifter, 0.008 kg
• Each pyrotechnical fuse (pyrofuse), 0.00004 kg
• Each pyrotechnical hinge and roll bar actuator, 0.002 kg

Airbags and emergency tensioning retractors, pyrotechnical engine hood lifters and pyrotechnical actuators must not be stored in the direct vicinity of easily or highly flammable and oxidizing materials. Acquisition, transport, storage, installation and removal as well as scrapping may only be performed by trained personnel under observation of all applicable safety specifications. The use of a vehicle's passenger compartment to transport such materials is strictly prohibited.

Airbags and emergency tensioning retractors, pyrotechnical engine hood lifters as well as pyrotechnical actuators must always be stored in the original spare part packaging in the luggage compartment or load compartment of the vehicle, and secured to prevent them from sliding around.