COMP EX HAZARDOUS AREAS COURSE

Here is the sixth edition of the training course developed to introduce the trainees to the fundamental operating techniques and procedures. It is also going to give them required guidance to working with the electrical tools in hazardous environments. The importance of and demand for the appropriate training in this area is absolutely evident.

All persons working in such conditions shall have full understanding of the safe working practices and be duly competent in the procedures. The whole content of the course has been arranged in fourteen units. The first unit covers general principles including the nature of various flammable substances, temperature coding, gas grouping and ingress protection, and area classification.

The second unit is devoted to the standards, marking and certification. The rest and actually the main body of the course is dealing with the different methods of protection, wiring systems and ignition sources, inspections and maintenance conducted in accordance with the provisions of BS EN60079-17 standard, validation testing, safe isolation and PTW system. There are two appendices covering the reading of labels and providing data for the flammable substances for use with the electrical tools.