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    What ATEX Means

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    The ATEX Directive regulates that only certified electrical equipment can be used in potentially explosive areas to protect workers. It classifies areas based on the risk of explosion, with categories corresponding to zones. All electrical equipment must be certified for a specific category/zone to ensure safe use in that area, as indicated by a code printed on the equipment.

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    The ATEX Directive regulates that only certified electrical equipment can be used in potentially explosive areas to protect workers. It classifies areas based on the risk of explosion, with categories corresponding to zones. All electrical equipment must be certified for a specific category/zone to ensure safe use in that area, as indicated by a code printed on the equipment.

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    The ATEX Directive regulates that only certified electrical equipment can be used in potentially explosive areas to protect workers. It classifies areas based on the risk of explosion, with categories corresponding to zones. All electrical equipment must be certified for a specific category/zone to ensure safe use in that area, as indicated by a code printed on the equipment.

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    The ATEX Directive regulates that only certified electrical equipment can be used in potentially explosive areas to protect workers. It classifies areas based on the risk of explosion, with categories corresponding to zones. All electrical equipment must be certified for a specific category/zone to ensure safe use in that area, as indicated by a code printed on the equipment.

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    What ATEX means

    The ATEX Directive ( 94/9/EC ) regulates that manufactures are forced to supply
    ONLY properly certified electrial equipment to be used in potentially explosive
    areas. From the workers perspective there is another ATEX Directive ( 99/92/EC )
    that regulates the requirements for improving in the safety and health protection of
    workers potentially at risk from explosive atmospheres. This Directive is mandatory
    since 1 st july 2003.

    According to this last Directive each area needs to be classefied according to the
    potential hazardous risk so that only appropriate certified equipment can be used
    in there.With the old CENELEC ( previous Directive ) areas were divided into three
    classifications : Zone 0, Zone 1, and Zone 2, depending on the level of risk. These
    areas can apper in potential hazardous atmospheres as explained on this image:

    Now with the new ATEX Directive, every aera is classified by Category. Every
    Category is associated to a type of
    Zone. And every aera is classified according to the lenght of time where flameable
    material can be present in there, as follows.

    All electrical equipment should be classified according to these categories ( zone )


    in order to certify in what areas it can be used.

    How can I recognize if a light is correctly certified by ATEX

    All lights certified by ATEX should have a code printed on its body. This code will
    advice the user in what kind of area this light can be used whithout risk of
    explosion.

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