Intrinsically Safe What
I had someone around explaining about health and safety and how to avoid accidents in the workplace, you know what I mean. we know about goggles, earmuffs, cleanliness in the loos etc, but never heard of intrinsically safe equipment. It seems wherever there is the risk of explosion, i.e. around petrol, we should be using equipment that dos not emit heat or any sparks that could cause an explosion, examples being computers and mobile phones.
Now I can understand a bit more if we sold petrol, but we don’t and what’s more how do you make an intrinsically safe welding torch, as we do weld all the time and I can tell you there are hell of a lot sparks coming out of that. Another way to describe this stuff is ATEX equipment, something to do with Europe and explosions and I can see their uses, as we watch what is going on in the Mexico gulf oil rig, but while we use welding torches and every time we start up a car, a huge amount of electricity of forced through the spark plugs (notice the word spark), I am not sure we are yet ready for this Atex equipment stuff just yet.
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