Hazardous Locations

Industry leading experience & expertise to get your equipment approved for use in hazardous locations.

Helping you deliver safe and compliant equipment to market for use in hazardous locations.

Combustible dusts, flammable gases, mists or vapors can all contribute to potentially explosive atmospheres in the workplace. Manufacturers & suppliers are challenged to ensure their equipment complies with local government, regulatory, and international safety standards proving their equipment is safe and fit for use in hazardous locations.

Our extensive set of accreditations and international network of hazardous location testing laboratories are your resource for worldwide hazardous location and explosive atmosphere compliance. We have 7 laboratories around the world that can perform hazardous location testing to give manufacturers the convenience of local support and testing services.

With over 30 years of hazardous location safety expertise, we evaluate your equipment for potentially explosive or gaseous areas, helping you ensure your equipment meets applicable safety standards to be approved for use in hazardous locations.

Why Eurofins E&E North America?

Eurofins E&E can provide seamless testing, certification and product inspection services under the ATEX Directive & IECEx scheme, via an innovative Harmonized International Ex Testing Program. The program harmonizes test processes, engineering skill sets, and administration to ensure a consistent approach in securing all recognized approvals for potentially explosive atmosphere.

Our single-source testing and certification capabilities, local expertise in major world markets, and global coverage can help you cut significant time off the certification process, rendering approvals in weeks instead of months.

In addition to ATEX and IECEx certifications, we also provide hazardous location certification for the U.S. and Canada. Eurofins E&E can conduct an investigation in accordance with the applicable EN standards simultaneously with a US and Canadian certification project.

Our Hazardous Location testing and certification capabilities include

Whether you need certification for North America, Europe, or other international destinations, we can provide a single laboratory source for all necessary certifications. With full ATEX, IECEx, NRTL, and MSHA testing and approval services, we give you the ability to deliver hazardous location products to any market under a single test plan. Our capabilities include:

• Hazardous Location Testing Capabilities
• IECEx Certification
• ATEX Certification
• MSHA Part 6 approvals for mines
• Hazardous Location On-site Evaluations
• Flameproof and Explosion-Proof Testing

What is Hazardous Location Testing?

Hazardous Location Testing verifies that a product does not present a risk of explosion when placed into a potentially explosive atmosphere (hazardous location). The testing is performed by evaluating the method of protection applied in the design of the device. The testing process consists of subjecting the device to a potentially explosive atmosphere and attempt to cause a critical failure within the device’s protection system. If a device does not experience a critical failure and meets all additional requirements set forth by the applicable hazardous location standard, the device is considered compliant for use within the tested environment.

Examples of protection methods for products used in hazardous locations include:

• Intrinsic Safety
• Flameproof
• Increased Safety
• Encapsulation
• Pressurization/Purge
• Oil Immersion
• Type “n”

Some of Eurofins E&E's Hazardous Location customers

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