Your 12-point safety checklist for hazardous areas Before work begins, verify the essential safety precautions and requirements for working in hazardous areas. This practical 12-point checklist helps you identify common mistakes, improve safety, support compliance...
UKCA Product Certification for ‘Ex’ Products When will I need to use the UKCA Mark? Only UKCA Issued EX Certificates will be accepted from the 1st January 2023 in the UK for products that previously required Notified Body Certification. What...
Free EX Wallchart Large ‘A1’ UKCA, IECEx and ATEX wallchart Our ATEX wallchart has been completely revised for the latest edition of the Standards, charts and changes (as of April 2022)This IECEx and ATEX wallchart is packed with codes, standard and...
The ‘Declaration of Conformity’ is perhaps the most important document in ATEX, it is what legally makes equipment ‘ATEX’ under the CE Marking Directive. Once the manufacturer has undertaken the appropriate procedures to assure conformity with essential...
Mandatory Training & Competence for ‘Ex’ Designers There have been many significant changes in the last 18 months that are relevant to manufacturers of skids and assemblies. This includes a new Installation Standard, new or revised protection...
UKCA ‘Ex’, The ATEX Directive and IECEx European countries require CE Marking and ‘ATEX’ is one of the CE Marking Directives required if your product is in scope and is designed to be used in potentially explosive atmospheres (gas or dust). Many...
ATEX and UKCA Quality Module Requirements Any industry that processes, uses or manufactures materials that may give rise to a flammable atmosphere (gas, mist, liquid, dusts or even small fibres) may have a potentially explosive atmosphere. Where fuel and oxygen...
ATEX Non-Electrical Certification ATEX Non-electrical certification has always been part of ATEX Certification, however, the fact that even Zone 1 certification could be ‘self certified’ for non-electrical equipment (with the resulting file lodged with a Notified...
ATEX Concepts Of Protection Any industry that processes, uses or manufactures materials that may give rise to a flammable atmosphere (gas, mist, liquid, dusts or even small fibres) may have a potentially explosive atmosphere. Where fuel and oxygen (normally the...
What is an explosion? An explosion is any uncontrolled combustion wave. In order to create an explosion the has to be fuel (for example an explosive gas such as hydrogen), and oxidizer (such as the oxygen in air) and a source of ignition energy (for example, a hot...
