Hazardous Locations & Explosive Atmospheres Guide to Equipment Certification Requirem

[Dennis Alwon]

Hazardous Locations & Explosive Atmospheres Guide to Equipment Certification Requirem

I got this in an email from Intertek and I thought some may be interested in it. It is not something I would uses but I know some of you guys do--http://www.intertek.com/uploadedFiles/Intertek/Divisions/Commercial_and_Electrical/Media/PDF/Explosive_Atmospheres/Hazardous-Locations-Poster_2014.pdf

 

[rbalex]

I got this in an email from Intertek and I thought some may be interested in it. It is not something I would uses but I know some of you guys do--http://www.intertek.com/uploadedFiles/Intertek/Divisions/Commercial_and_Electrical/Media/PDF/Explosive_Atmospheres/Hazardous-Locations-Poster_2014.pdf

This NRTL poster is better than most; especially if you are careful to observe the differences in applications between the US and Canadian "Protection Concepts" and "Standards by Product Types" in the "North American" section.

However, it still perpetuates the most common misunderstanding of NEC and IEC classifications in the "Classication of Divisions and Zones" part of the "NORTH AMERICA and ATEX & IECEx" Section. This is not particularly surprising because NRTLs don't classify locations they certify products.