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Insurers to Report Specific Violations Found During Inspection of Boilers & Pressure Vessels

Industry: Boilers and Pressure Vessels

Category: Regulatory Updates

Apr 17, 2025

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High-risk violations must be resolved by owners before a Certificate of Inspection can be issued

Insurance companies and third-party inspection agencies are required to report specific violations through the Boilers and Pressure Vessels Certificate of Inspection (BPV COI) Portal for Insurers.  

As of April 14, 2025, the BPV COI Portal became available to support this reporting requirement. The 20 violations – of which 11 are high-risk requiring immediate compliance – are outlined in the Director’s Order BPV-25-02. 

Equipment owners must resolve high-risk violations before a Certificate of Inspection (COI) can be issued. Once the high-risk violation is resolved, the owner or operator shall advise the insurer for reinspection and verification, so that the high-risk violation can be resolved in the BPV COI Portal, and a COI can be issued.

This initiative is part of Technical Standards and Safety Authority’s (TSSA) transition to an Outcome-Based Regulator that ensures the collection of high-quality, consistent and complete data on high-risk non-compliances and incidents.

Until now, compliance data from insurance companies and third-party inspection agencieswas not systematically tracked or analyzed. To collect and analyze data on high-risk equipment that could pose an elevated risk to public safety, TSSA has outlined 20 specific violations found during inspections that must be reported through the BPV COI Portal for Insurers. 

The collected data will be used to oversee compliance with safety violations and help: 

• Improve safety-performance tracking     
• Identify and understand risk trends and emerging issues     
• Strengthen public-safety outcomes

                                  Reporting 20 Specific Violations on the BPV COI Portal

High-Risk Violations: 

  • The safety relief device is inoperable.  
  • The safety relief device is missing. 
  • The safety relief device’s pressure setting is incorrect. 
  • The low water cutoff/flow sensing device is inoperable. 
  • The low water cutoff/flow sensing device is missing. 
  • The low water cutoff/flow sensing device is improperly installed. 
  • Level Indicators (Gage Glasses, Bulls Eyes and Fiber Opticals) are inoperable. 
  • Level Indicators (Gage Glasses, Bulls Eyes and Fiber Opticals) are missing. 
  • Pressure-retaining items (e.g. Boiler, Expansion Tanks) have been improperly repaired or altered. 
  • Pressure-retaining items (e.g. Boiler, Expansion Tanks) have material flaws impairing their safe operation(e.g. corrosion, cracks) 
  • The pressure-retaining item is inoperable or being used in an unsafe manner.


Other Reportable Violations: 

  • The safety relief device is improperly installed. 
  • The safety relief device is not set to the correct capacity. 
  • The safety relief device is missing its nameplate or is illegible. 
  • The pressure control is inoperable. 
  • The pressure control is missing. 
  • The temperature control/high-limit device is inoperable.   
  • The temperature control/high-limit device is missing. 
  • The pressure/temperature indicator is inoperable. 
  • The pressure/temperature indicator is missing. 


Note: If an inspector believes a device cannot be operated safely based on some other condition, they can reach out to TSSA at bpvcustomerservice@tssa.org.

When any of the 20 violations are found, they must be submitted via a single Record of Inspection (ROI) submission through the BPV COI Portal for Insurers. Only ROIs that do not include any of the 20 violations can be bulk-uploaded to the Portal. 

Instructions on how insurance companies and third-party inspection agencies can notify TSSA of violations, including how to report resolved violations, is available on TSSA’s Training webpage.

For more information, please stay tuned for updates on the BPV FAQs webpage, contact TSSA’s Customer Contact Centre at 1-877-682-8772 (toll-free) or email customerservices@tssa.org.

This news item was sent to BPV owners, operators, insurers and web subscribers.

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