Hazardous Areas Training
Abhisam’s India office recently conducted an Instructor led rapid Hazardous Areas training workshop, at the Baumer factory in Vapi, Gujarat, India. This was an intensive hazardous areas training that saw the enthusiastic participation of several Baumer employees from different departments including Sales & Marketing, Quality Assurance, Design and more. The workshop was organized in association with Markovs Analytics LLP, an Abhisam affiliate.
About Baumer
Baumer have a high tech factory at Vapi that manufactures several instrumentation devices including Pressure Gauges, Temperature Gauges, Pressure Switches, Level gauges, Level switches, Diaphragms, Temperature Transmitter heads, Thermowells using different metals including Stainless Steel, Monel and Hastelloy. The factory uses the latest manufacturing technologies including Pick & place robots, vision systems and very high accuracy calibration systems. It is a fully integrated factory where these instruments are manufactured from bars and tubes. Everything including Bourdon tubes are manufactured in-house, leading to a high degree of quality. The products from this factory are used all over the world.
What did the Hazardous Areas Training Workshop cover?
The Abhisam Rapid Hazardous Areas training covered the following:
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- Basic Concepts of Hazardous Areas & Explosion protection
- Area, Temp and Material Classification
- Basics of Protection Methods
- Introduction to Standards incl IEC, NEC and ATEX.
- Marking & Labeling
Here is the overview of each module.
Basic Concepts module
This covered basics of Fire and Dust explosions, concepts of Flame path, LEL & UEL, Autoignition, Flash Point, Minimum Ignition Energy, MEIC, and more. Several animations and videos made these concepts very easy to understand for the participants.
Area Classification module
This covered the IEC/ATEX system of classification using Zones & Groups as well as the North American system using Class, Division and Groups, as well as a comparison between both systems. Material and Temperature classification concepts were also covered with the reasons for grouping of materials into different groups based on their characteristics.
Basics of Protection methods module
This covered almost all methods of explosion protection including Flameproof, Explosionproof (UL 1203), Increased Safety, Pressurization, Purging, Encapsulation, Intrinsic Safety. Dust Ignition protection, Powder filling and more. It also touched upon explosion protection regarding non electrical equipment.
Hazardous Areas Standards & Directives
The Standards module covered an overview of the multitude of the standards in this domain and included the basics of IEC, ATEX as well as NFPA/NEC, concepts of Equipment Protection Levels, Categories, different requirements of marking and labels in different jurisdictions.
Hazardous Areas Marking
The Marking and Labeling module explained how to interpret labels and marks on explosion protected equipment. Baumer product labels were studied.
Non electrical equipment in hazardous areas
Previously, training courses used to be titled as “electrical equipment in hazardous areas training” but now this is no longer true as mechanical and other non electrical equipment is also required to be suitable for hazardous areas.
Hazardous Areas Training from Abhisam
Abhisam is a pioneer in Hazardous Areas training, when the first e-learning course on Hazardous Area Instrumentation was launched in the year 2003. This was a time when many people were new to the concept of e-learning and online learning courses.
Since then in the past twenty years, Abhisam has revised this course several times to reflect the various changes in the standards and directives. Abhisam has the following other e-learning courses related to Hazardous Areas, on Hazardous Area Classification and Intrinsic Safety
If you are new to hazardous areas you can take the free hazardous areas training course here.
In addition to Hazardous Areas training courses, Abhisam courses cover many topics on Process Safety (including HAZOP, What-If, LOPA and more), Functional Safety, Occupational Safety (including topics like H2S training and Confined Space Safety) , RFID and IIoT, Instrumentation, Industrial Cybersecurity and more.
For the full catalog, please visit the Abhisam Learning Portal where you can take free and premium courses on these topics.
If you would like to organize a similar workshop at your facility, please contact us.
