4. Essential health and safety requirements
These highly detailed essential health and safety requirements, which must be met by the manufacturer, are set out in just over eight pages of Annex II to the directive.
The following summary of the main points is therefore highly reductive.
Provisions common to all protection devices and systems include :
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the principle of integrated explosion safety. Equipment must be designed for safe use in ATEX environments. To this end, the manufacturer takes steps to :
if possible, prevent equipment and protective systems from generating or releasing explosive atmospheres themselves,
prevent the ignition of explosive atmospheres, taking into account the nature of each ignition source (electrical or non-electrical),
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Bibliography
Bibliography
- ATEX 2014/34/EU Guidelines – 3e édition des lignes directrices sur l'application de la directive 2014/34/UE du Parlement européen et du conseil du 26 février 2014 sur l'harmonisation de la loi des états membres concernant les appareils et les systèmes de protection destinés à être utilisés en atmosphères explosibles -
Standards and norms
- Explosive atmospheres – Explosion prevention and protection – Part 1: Fundamentals and methodology - NF EN 1127-1 - 08-19
- Explosive atmospheres – Part 0: Hardware – General requirements - NF EN IEC 60079-0 - 07-18
- Explosive atmospheres – Part 36: Non-electrical equipment for use in potentially explosive atmospheres – Methodology and requirements - NF EN ISO 80079-36 - 06-16
Regulations
Décret n° 2015-799 du 1 er juillet 2015 relatif aux produits et équipements à risques – JORF n° 0152 du 3 juillet 2015 page 11202
Directive 2014/34/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of February 26, 2014 on the harmonization of the laws of the Member States concerning equipment and protective systems intended for use in potentially explosive...
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CLATEX website
Liaison Committee for equipment intended for use in ATEX zones https://www.ineris.fr/CLATEX
European Commission website on ATEX
EU legislation and ATEX – Equipment for potentially explosive atmospheres (ATEX)
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