Supportfor the idea of technical inspection associations kept growing beyond Germany’sborders. Some foreign associations had even joined the “Verband vonDampfkesselüberwachungsvereinen“ (union of boiler inspection associations)based in Hanover.
For thatreason, the German umbrella organisation renamds itself in 1888 the“Internationaler Verband von Dampfkessel-Überwachungsvereinen” (internationalunion of boiler inspection associations). While politics still revolved almostsolely around national affairs, the pioneers of technical inspection programsunderstood that safety cannot stop at a country’s borders.
