{"id":1256,"date":"2018-04-24T15:30:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T13:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mitrex.nl\/?page_id=1256"},"modified":"2018-05-17T09:22:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T07:22:34","slug":"zones","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mitrex.nl\/en\/atex\/zones\/","title":{"rendered":"Zones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to ATEX ARBO legislation and regulations directive 1999\/92 \/ EG (ATEX 153, ATEX 137), every employer who is dealing with potentially explosive environments where employees are at a potential risk is obliged to take organizational measures and record it in a so-called Explosion Safety Document (ESD).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ESD also presents the risk inventory in which the zone layout is determined and the documentation inventory of all possible &#8211; both electrical and non-electrical &#8211; sources of ignition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Explosion-hazardous area must be clearly marked for employees with a warning triangle which contains the text &#8220;Ex&#8221; in black on a yellow background. According to the ATEX directive, explosion-proof material that has been made suitable for use in potentially explosive areas is marked with the &#8216;Ex&#8217; logo in a hexagon. With the latter characteristics, there is no duty to yellow background.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A potentially explosive area can be classified in the following danger zones:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/center><\/p>\n<table class=\"table\" width=\"70%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th width=\"40\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zone<\/span><\/th>\n<th><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Description<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"40\">0<\/td>\n<td>A place in which an explosive atmosphere consisting of a mixture with air of dangerous substances in the form of gas, vapour or mist is present continuously or for long periods or frequently.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"grey-bg\">\n<td width=\"40\">1<\/td>\n<td>A place in which an explosive atmosphere consisting of a mixture with air of dangerous substances in the form of gas, vapour or mist is likely to occur in normal operation occasionally.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"40\">2<\/td>\n<td>A place in which an explosive atmosphere consisting of a mixture with air of dangerous substances in the form of gas, vapour or mist is not likely to occur in normal operation but, if it does occur, will persist for a short period only.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"grey-bg\">\n<td width=\"40\">20<\/td>\n<td>A place in which an explosive atmosphere in the form of a cloud of combustible dust in air is present continuously, or for long periods or frequently.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"40\">21<\/td>\n<td>A place in which an explosive atmosphere in the form of a cloud of combustible dust in air is likely to occur in normal operation occasionally.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"grey-bg\">\n<td width=\"40\">22<\/td>\n<td>A place in which an explosive atmosphere in the form of a cloud of combustible dust in air is not likely to occur in normal operation but, if it does occur, will persist for a short period only.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The classification of the danger zone for gas explosion hazard is standardised in EN-IEC 60079-10-1.<\/p>\n<p>EN-IEC 60079-10-2 is a separate section for dust explosion hazard.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to ATEX ARBO legislation and regulations directive 1999\/92 \/ EG (ATEX 153, ATEX 137), every employer who is dealing with potentially explosive environments where employees are at a potential risk is obliged to take organizational measures and record it in a so-called Explosion Safety Document (ESD). &nbsp; ESD also presents the risk inventory in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1248,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1256","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mitrex.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1256\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mitrex.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mitrex.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mitrex.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mitrex.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mitrex.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1256\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1506,"href":"https:\/\/www.mitrex.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1256\/revisions\/1506\/"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mitrex.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1248\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mitrex.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}