Sounds very simple:
- Electrical Ex - electrical, instrumentation
- Non electrical Ex - machinery
- Environment - built and designed
- Mankind - personnel competencies
BUT not easy to follow.
Let me go in a row:
- electrical Ex - we do have experience with, easy to get Ex certified products all over the world according to different schemes, directives, local regulations and recertifications. Lifetime tracking is a must have.
- non-electrical Ex - started with EN 13463, and turned into ISO 80079-36. not yet daily practice, many installations still to be delivered without any proper assessment, where no 3rd party certification exist. Huge risk. Lifetime tracking is a must have.
- environment - built and designed shall be by Ex competent designers - many on the road, more needed.
- mankind - personnel competencies - leak in the system - overcomplicated by many organizations - simply described in the standards - regulation shall come either from country itself or from responsible ones.
In all cases any ignition source shall be hunted and solved. Ways are many...
Keep up good work.
