Intrinsic safety (IS) is an electrical design approach that prevents explosions from occurring by ensuring that the energy transferred to a hazardous area is well below the energy required to initiate ...

Stringent occupational health and safety regulations prohibit the use of non-compliant equipment on coal mines, chemical and petro-chemical plants. With the risk of explosions always top of mind, ...

North American companies are beginning to move toward intrinsically-safe systems, already well established in Europe, that use currents and voltages too low to spark an explosion in a hazardous ...

Bel Fuse is aiming at hazardous environments with a series of 3 x 8.4mm fast-acting ceramic tube fuses. Type 0AMA fuses are designed for barrier circuits in intrinsic safety applications – ...

Unlike explosion-proof schemes, which aim to contain explosions inside enclosures, intrinsic safety keeps them from ever happening at all. Consider whether it makes sense for your production ...