Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung

The Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM ) is a federal authority and establishment of departmental research of the Federal Republic of Germany, located in the Berlin district of Lichterfelde. Under her guidance Safety in technology and chemistry, it is responsible for public safety technical and metrological tasks in chemistry. In the BAM over 1700 employees.

Using the organization name

The long version of the name is indeed known outside specialist circles, but in practice the device is generally referred to briefly as BAM, although a likelihood of confusion with numerous other meanings of BAM.

Due to the cessation of the BAM to consider pyrotechnic articles - which always has a printed on the subject of BAM - number result - sometimes like to play, for example, by employees of the authority 's self-image as "Without BAM no Boom".

Historical development

Tasks

The tasks of the BAM are the Task Group on " material - Chemistry - Environment - Safety ". BAM has the statutory mandate ( Explosives Act and others) for:

• Statutory functions for public safety technical
• Participation in the rulemaking (laws, regulations, national and international standards)
• Advising the federal government, the business community and organizations on issues of object grouping
• Development and provision of reference methods, reference materials
• Development of safety and reliability in chemical and materials engineering

One of the most well-known tasks of the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing is the verification of pyrotechnic articles like fireworks. In Germany, only pyrotechnic articles may be sold that are approved by the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing or tested as part of a quality assurance. More in public highly regarded activities of BAM are the admission of Dangerous Goods for the Transport of Dangerous Goods, the development of non-destructive testing for early detection of damage and prevention of accidents and the development and provision of reference materials for analytical chemistry, for example in environmental laboratories.

Since 2006, the item " preservation of cultural heritage " in the target agreement between the BAM and the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology is included. With projects to study the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Sky Disc of Nebra, medieval silver pen drawings or historic inks, BAM has performed in this workspace international recognition work place.

Areas of activity

There are the following three areas of activity in the BAM:

• Research and development ( FE)
• Testing, analysis, approval ( ETA)
• Advice and information (BI )