Site operators sometimes ask about how to make their equipment intrinsically safe. For example, one firm inquired about how to make its 480V motors intrinsically safe. Such a lack of understanding of ...

In harsh industrial environments, the presence of gases, airborne dust and petroleum products can be highly explosive when a spark or high temperatures are affecting the surrounding environment.

While hazardous conditions are a fact of life in industrial plants, end users, safety organizations and automation suppliers are doing everything they can to ensure products are explosion-proof, ...

Intrinsic safety (IS) is an electrical design approach that prevents explosions from occurring by ensuring that the energy transferred to a hazardous area is well below the energy required to initiate ...

The IECEx is a certification system which verifies compliance with IEC international standards relating to equipment for use in explosive atmospheres. The safety requirement for equipment under IECEx ...

As you develop your safety plan for a hazardous production environment, you might want to move beyond the explosion-proof methods that have been popular for so many years in the U.S., and start ...