GexCon Has A Staff Of Highly Qualified Personnel, Which Can Offer Safety Services For All Types Of Installations

where flammable or hazardous materials are handled or present a danger, or where the consequence of gas dispersion, fire, explosion including civil contingency and emergency planning needs advanced modelling.

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complex problems our consultants have hundreds of combined years of experience in Process and Technical Safety and Risk Management. They can assist you at all stages of your engineering and management control process from concept design to process development and facility safe operation; from initial hazard evaluation (HAZID) right through to continued safe operability of your facility (HAZOP, QRA, SCRAM). Together with your staff, GexCon consultants will ensure that the hazards and risks for your facility are evaluated in a complete and systematic manner. The level of risk in your facility will be identified with priorities ranked in order of severity allowing a targeted and effective approach to risk reduction. Where improvements can be made, practical recommendations will be given to assist you with the reduction of the residual risk to as low as reasonably practicable.
This general analysis is performed according to the ATEX user directive1 . For new installations, the European ATEX user directive became operative on 1st July 2003.  For existing plants, the directive came into force on 1st July 2006. (UK Statutory Instrument 2776 – DSEAR) For areas where the harmonised standards are unclear, or their scope is not relevant for the processes, other guidelines are used.

One particular area of interest is the establishment of hazardous areas. The hazardous area classification is a responsibility of the user and there is an obligation to consider all risks connected to the different components of an installation.
Our services include:

• Hazardous area classifications and DSEAR risk assessments/compliance in accordance with DSEAR / ATEX 137 (Hazardous includes, fire, explosion, similar energy releasing events and asphyxiation)
• Electrostatic Surveys according to DSEAR
• Explosion safety training
• Economic selection of protection systems and basis of safety justification in accordance with the explosion protection document
• Product testing in accordance with the ATEX equipment directive
• Material testing laboratories to confirm fire and explosion properties
• Advanced computational fluid dynamic modelling of fire, dispersion and explosions (Gas, vapour and dust) to predict the hazardous extent and likely consequence.
• Fire and explosion accident investigations – expert service

GexCon’s consultants will help you understand explosion hazards in your facility and advise you on all practical and financially effective solutions to reduce the risks presented by these hazards. Working with GexCon as your safety partner you can be assured that your safety performance will significantly improve and be fully compliant with local regulations.

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