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What goes into developing the courses
you offer?
" It starts with basic knowledge. Our courses
are designed around industry standards. We
look at the various API standards, the NFPA
standards, and the IEC standards, which we
highly endorse. And we get involved in these
organizations, and we get involved in the
development of these standards. So, we have
first-hand input into what's going on and it
gives us first-hand view into what direction
these standards are going. Because these
standards are the template for what we do in
hazardous locations. "
Two System Classification
Bozek explain that a lot of confusion in
hazardous locations traces back to when IEC
design products were incorporated into the
electrical code in 1998. Section 18 has gone
through several updates and clarifications
throughout the past 25-years of code cycles,
which Bozek said has led to a lack of understanding,
" I still find many people who are
uncomfortable or are not aware of the
requirements, or the ability to use both
Division products and Zone products in Zone
classified facilities or Division classified facilities.
We got this mixed bag of requirements
that people have a hard time grasping. "
" Once we adopted the Zone system, we
basically had to re-write Section 18. Section
18 has hadmore revisions than any other
section of the code of the past 25-years,
without question. Virtually every code cycle
had new requirements and even now, we're
ELECTRICAL INDUS TRY CANADA
looking at these requirements and trying to
clarify them. "
" The only way to resolve this confusion is
through education. This is why we created
the EngWorks School of Hazloc, " he said.
In the 2021 version of the code, for example,
Section 18 appears to have a new list of
ceiling requirements, but Bozek said, " the
ceiling requirements have not changed,
they've just been clarified. Because they were
so nebulous and confusing, the Section 18
committee decided we had to fix it. "
The irony for Bozek is that the attempts to
clarify the section ultimately cause further
confusion.
" And, of course, " he reiterated, " the only way
to resolve those issue is through training. "
" This is the real benefit of the online training
platform. We can modify our courses in real
time, so anytime someone signs up for one of
our courses, they're getting the latest and the
greatest in hazardous locations. That's not
always true when you're doing the instructor
led courses. "
" The opportunity to present up-to-date
information and improve upon it is just wonderful. "
New
ExHAC Hazardous Area Classifications
Course
" One of the biggest challenges withing
hazardous locations is doing the Hazardous
Area Location Designs. I work closely with
E-Safe of Ontario -over and over again, we
find the classification design done for a
particular product, or a particular facility lacks
the most basic information. Which implies the
people doing the classification design are not
really competent in the area. And this is
problematic - we've recognized this for many
years. In fact, in 2015, we inserted some new
rules into the Canadian Electrical Code to
ensure the Area Classification Designs were
done to the appropriate standard. This is
where Appendix L came into the Canadian
Electrical Code. "
" Appendix L defines how a hazardous area
classification design should be done, how it
should be documented, the type of information
you need to provide when looking for
professional certification, " Appendix L
explains it all - but this course goes way
beyond Appendix L. It basically tells you what
you need to know about doing your classification
design and we based it around IEC
standards, which are applicable worldwide. "
The course is a combination of an online
training, which provides guidance to perform
a classification design, along with a calculation
tool. The calculation is all based on IEC
60079-10-1.
It takes all the complex calculations in the
standard and provides a tool so that you can
easily do analysis, create designs, and document
design in real time.
" In addition to that, we are also incorporating
the IEC standard into the training course. They
will have access to the standard, training on
the standard, and they will have an application
tool to help them use the standard. Our
intent is to market this course worldwide
because there's a worldwide market. "
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