Legislation obliges you, as an employer, to guarantee the safety of your employees. This is done on the basis of a hazard evaluation and by way of the measures derived from that evaluation. As regards explosion prevention, Section 6 of the Operational Safety Ordinance requires that the results of this hazard evaluation and the resultant safety measures be recorded in an explosion protection document.

The explosion protection requirements that have to be satisfied in business operations are set down for all of Europe in EU Directive 1999/92/EC. Thus it is necessary to determine whether a mixture of fuel and air could arise at the workplace or the immediate environment and thus create an explosive atmosphere that would represent a hazard for the staff.

Do processes in your operations liberate flammable substances in the form of gases, vapors, fogs or dust? Is it conceivable that these flammable substances could form an explosive mixture with the ambient air? We can help you evaluate and classify the prevailing explosion hazard. We can assist in identifying and introducing the measures needed to avoid and/or master explosion hazards in your operations. We assemble and summarize the results for you in a clearly organized and easy-to-use explosion protection document and in so doing help you comply with legal requirements.

Reference:
RWE, E.ON, DSK, ERSA (PL), RAG, Oudegem (B), ThyssenKrupp, Heller, Ruez, Rheinbraun, Komatsu, etc.