Intrinsic Safety Course

Intrinsic Safety Course from Abhisam

The Abhisam Intrinsic Safety course is now available for learners on the Abhisam Learning Portal. This training course on Intrinsically Safe systems, is the best online course for Instrumentation engineers, Automation professionals and Control System engineers who wish to design Intrinsically Safe systems in their plants and facilities that have hazardous areas.

What are Hazardous Areas?

As you probably know, hazardous areas (also known as classified locations) are those areas of a plant or facility which have the risk of presence of flammable mixtures of gases, vapors or dusts. These hazardous areas are found in many locations such as underground mines, oil fields, gas processing units, chemical manufacturing plants, grain silos, metal processing plants, sugar refining plants and many more such places.

The equipment and instruments used in these places should be of special types, that would not cause any fires or explosions due to their use. These are called as explosion protected equipment.

What is Intrinsic Safety?

Intrinsic Safety is a method of protection used in hazardous areas to prevent ignition of the hazardous atmosphere due to instruments or other low power devices. Intrinsic Safety is a preventive technique, which prevents a high level of energy from being present in the hazardous area due to its unique nature.

Understanding the Importance of Intrinsic Safety

Intrinsic Safety as a method of protection is one of the best when it comes to using low power devices in hazardous areas. This is one of the preferred protection methods used for Instrumentation loops, as it can be used even in Zone 0 (this is the only method of protection that is permitted in Zone 0) and one can do live maintenance on the loop. This is not possible in the case of explosionproof instruments, where one can install them only in Zone 1 and Zone 2 and secondly, one cannot do live maintenance on them- they have to be isolated from the power source when you open their enclosures.

What is a  Safety Barrier?

In the context of Intrinsic safety, a safety barrier is a device that is in between the equipment (such as the DCS I/O card or PLC I/O card)  in the non hazardous area (such as a control room or a marshaling panel room) and the equipment in the hazardous area (such as transmitters and control valves in the field) . The I S safety barrier prevents faults in the non-hazardous area from going to the hazardous area and causing an explosion due to ignition or sparking.

What is a Zener Barrier?

A type of Intrinsically Safe barrier that uses Zener diodes is popularly called as a Zener barrier. It is one of the most commonly used types of I S barriers in Instrumentation and Control Systems. Zener barriers are available in many varieties and types. These require a good separate low resistance, Intrinsically Safe ground.

What is a Galvanic Isolator?

These are safety barriers that use galvanic isolation to prevent faults in the non-hazardous area equipment from appearing in the hazardous area. These do not require any ground connection and can be floating circuits.

What will I learn in the Abhisam Intrinsic Safety Course?

The Abhisam Intrinsic Safety Course covers everything that you need to know about Intrinsic Safety to design, build and maintain Intrinsically safe loops in your plant. It covers the entire subject in different modules as given below:

      • Hazardous Area Basic Concepts
      • Intrinsic Safety Basics
      • Zener Barriers
      • Galvanic Isolators
      • Intrinsic Safety Standards (IEC 60079 and  NEC)
      • Intrinsically Safe Fieldbus Systems
      • Inspections and Maintenance
      • Self Assessment Test

There are self assessment questions at the end of every module and then another test can be taken when you complete all these modules. On passing the associated exam, you earn a Certificate and an electronic badge that you can display online on LinkedIn.

Where can I get this Intrinsic Safety course?

You can enroll immediately when you buy online at the link below. Access is immediate. All major credit cards, Paypal and bank payments are accepted.

https://sites.fastspring.com/abhisam/product/intrinsicsafetystandard.

 

 

 

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Note that it includes all the knowledge that you need to have to know how to work safely in confined spaces.

Can I not get this information free from elsewhere?

There is a  common myth  “Just Google it”

It is a myth that you can simply Google for Confined Space   information and get everything that you need to know.

Most likely you will get a large number of occupational safety articles and information, some videos, some power point slides, but much of the information may be in bits and pieces.

While you can get some basic information about confined space safety from these sources, it may not be complete. Even if you do find enough material, it will take you a long time to sequence it all together in one coherent document that makes sense to you.

Even after doing all this there is a possibility that you may not get what you really need to know from an OSHA compliance perspective

Plus you will spend several hours of your time doing all this for zero returns on your investment!

On the other hand, when you take this Abhisam Confined Space safety course, you know that

    1.  It is very carefully made, with subject matter experts in the field of Occupational Safety, Process Safety & Industrial operations who have spent decades in the actual field creating permit systems, investigating incidents and streamlining methods to reduce or eliminate confined space safety accidents.
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Can I not simply buy a book? That will be much cheaper!

Of course, you could always pass this up and decide to go for  buy a book on this topic,

but,

remember that there are some disadvantages with this approach

    1.  The first is that not a single book is available  that covers all the topics that you need to know. On the other hand, there will be many books on general workplace safety, occupational safety, permit systems, that may be relevant to only those working in normal workplaces, not those having confined spaces.
    2.  Some of these books may be outdated and obsolete.
    3.  Nobody gives you a certificate if you simply read a book!

 

What does the $7 trial include?

The $7 trial includes trial access to ALL the courses in the Abhisam Catalog for a limited time including this Confined Spaces Safety course

After the trial is over you can choose to either buy an individual course OR subscribe to the GOLD or PLATINUM membership plans.

Your card will not be billed automatically.

Which versions are available?

This course is available as either stand alone (select the Standard version above), Professional, or as part of the Abhisam GOLD membership level.

The Standard version allows you to access the course online from any device (PC/tablet/smartphone) that has an internet connection and a browser that supports HTML 5 (such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Opera, etc). You can access the course for a period of one year, within which you need to take the exam to earn a Certificate (electronic). You will also earn an electronic badge that can be displayed online on LinkedIn and similar portals.

The Professional version allows you access to the course for 3 years online. You will also earn an electronic badge that can be displayed online on LinkedIn and similar portals.

The content in the Standard and Professional versions is the same.

What is the Abhisam GOLD membership?

When you subscribe to the Abhisam GOLD membership, you get access to all the courses in the Abhisam Catalog, by paying just one low monthly subscription with no commitment as you can cancel anytime. You can also get a free certification exam every month. If you are interested in taking a bunch of courses, then the GOLD membership gives you an affordable plan to do this. This is available to individuals only.

What is the Abhisam Platinum membership?

This is meant for organizations with multiple learners. When you subscribe to the Abhisam Platinum membership, your learners get access to all the courses in the Abhisam Catalog, by paying just one low Enterprise yearly subscription. You can also get a free certification exam every month. 

Additionally Platinum membership gives you a Dashboard where your Training Manager can see the progress of the learners, such as learner module completion, login times, test scores, etc.