Risk, Reliability and Safety

Risk, Reliability and Safety in Process Control Systems

CE Marking

Before products are sold within the European - EU - market, they have to be "CE-marked"

Chemicals and Hazard Rating Systems

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) hazard system for chemical materials

Dust Explosions and Critical Temperatures

Critical temperatures and concentration parameters for some common substances as coal, zinc, uranium and more

Firestop Rating

F-rating, T-rating and L-rating of firestopping systems

Flash Point

The flash point indicates how easy a chemical may ignite and burn

Hazardous Areas Classification - Europe

European hazardous areas classifications in zones, protection types, temperature codes and codes

Hazardous Areas Classification - North America

North American hazardous locations classification in classes, divisions and groups

Hazardous Areas Protection Techniques

Instrinsically safe systems, purged and pressurized systems, explosion-proof equipment, nonicendive circuits and components, oil immersed equipment, hermetically sealed equipment, dust-ignitionproof equipment

Intrinsically Safe Equipment - an Introduction

Equipment and wiring incapable of releasing sufficient electrical or thermal energy under normal or abnormal conditions to cause ignition of a specific hazardous atmospheric mixture in its most easily ignited concentration

IP - Ingress Protection Ratings

IP - Ingress Protection rating is used to specify the environmental protection - electrical enclosure - of electrical equipment

NDT - Non Destructive Testing

Non-destructive testing of constructions

NEMA Electrical Enclosure Types

General description of NEMA electrical enclosures types

North American types of Hazardous Area Protection

Dust-ignition proof, explosion proof, instrinsically safe and nonincendive protection of hazardous areas

Reliability of Machine Components

Reliability of machine components and systems - Mean Time Between Failure - MTB

Safety Steam Valve Installation Guide

Guidelines to safety steam valve installation

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