Certified Safe Electrical Equipment

The types of equipment recognized as safe for dangerous areas fall into the categories described below :

i) Intrinsically Safe Equipment:

Intrinsically safe equipment relies on low power circuits to limit the maximum energy available to less than that necessary to ignite a flammable mixture under normal and certain fault conditions.

To use of intrinsically safe systems is limited to instrumentation, control and alarm systems because of the very low energy levels to which they are restricted.

ii) Explosion Proof / Flame Proof Equipment:

The equipment is designed with air gaps (‘flamepaths’), between covers or removable parts and the enclosure, closely controlled and so narrow that, if ignition occurred in the equipment, the resulting hot gases or flame would emerge at such velocities that surrounding flammable gas would not be ignited by the explosion. The concept is applicable to motors, junction boxes, circuit breakers and a wide range of other equipment. A certificate for the integrity of the equipment is issued after laboratory testing.

Care is essential in the maintenance and re-assembly of this type of equipment to ensure that the design features are not destroyed. In particular, the flame path should be kept dry and should never be filled with jointing compound.




General Precautions

Alarm or shutdown circuits which are working correctly should never be bypassed, overridden or isolated; such action could endanger the safety of the ship.

Defective circuits may be bypassed temporarily in case of an emergency but this action should only be taken with the full agreement of the responsible officer, and the decision should be recorded. The defect should be rectified and the circuit repaired as soon as possible, and the bypass removed.

Certified safe equipment should be carefully maintained, preferably by qualified personnel; advise from the manufacturer should be sought in case of doubt.



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