Material about explosion protection

Here are some links to further material about work safety, explosion protection and chemical safety. Unfortunately some material is only available in Finnish but we have linked majority of the content in English.

TUKES (Finnish Safety and Chemicals Agency) website

SFS Standards

List of ATEX Notified Bodies

Eurofins (Finnish Notified Body)

Legislation

738/2002 Occupational Safety and Health Act (Finland)

ATEX Legislation on Tukes website  (In Finnish)

ATEX 34/2014/ EU Guidelines

Explosive atmospheres

• 1999/92/EC Directive On protection of workers potentially at risk from explosive atmosphere

• 576/2003 Government Decree On protection of workers potentially at risk from explosive atmospheres (Finland)  (No English translation available)

• EC Harmonised Standards (ATEX)

Equipment

• 2014/34/EU Directive On equipment and protective systems intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres

• 1139/2016 Act (Finland) On the Conformity of Equipment and Protection Systems Intended for Use in Potentially Explosive Atmospheres (No English translation available)

Substances and chemicals

• 858/2012 Government Decree on Liquid Gas (Finland) (No English translation available)

• 551/2009 Government Decree on Natural Gas (Finland) (No English translation available)

• 390/2005 Act on safety of dangerous chemicals and explosives (Finland)  (No English translation available)

• 856/2012 Government Decree on Safety Requirements for Industrial Handling and Storage of Dangerous Chemicals (Finland) (No English translation available)

• 686/2015 Government Decree on handling hazardous substances (No English translation available)

Guides

*ATEX potentially explosive atmospheres safety guide (In Finnish)

*Good practice ATEX Guide

ATEX Code Interpretation Guide

A guide of substances that may cause a hazard (In Finnish)

Finnish Institution of Occipational Health – Chemical exposion

Qualities of potentially explosive dust substances

Dangerous Chemicals in Industry

Current emergencies in Finland (24h list)

Register of accidents and dangers happened in Finland (in Finnish)

Resourses

Explosion Protection Checklist

*Work Permit Template (in Finnish)  (the file opens in Excel)

International Chemical Safety Cards

Hazard warning signs and labels

*ATEX Sign Flammable Liquids Storage .doc version

Blog

We write about things that we believe will bring joy to people who work with potentially explosive atmospheres.

*Work tools and work gear for ATEX area

*Is old equipment still safe to use?

*Safety Culture at workplace

*Explosion videos

*Marking potentially explosive areas

* ATEX-training test