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Hazardous Area Classification and Design

Course Overview

This Hazardous Area Classification and Design training is an advanced course, intended for technicians, engineers and senior engineers involved with the design of electrical installations in hazardous areas and in area classification.

After this course you will be able to competently determine where hazardous zones exist within a facility, outline materials properties, and identify practical solutions to classification problems considering impacts on the installation, overall risk management, and costs/benefits of mitigation measures to reduce the classified areas.

Engineers will be able to select hazardous area compliant equipment and complete hazardous area installation design, including intrinsically safe circuit evaluation and design, maximum dissipating power calculations, electrical protection, dossier development, cable and entry system selection, understanding the operating theory and practical requirements for each protection technique, equipment certification, nomenclature, inspection, auditing and legislative requirements to name a few.

This course is aligned with the latest Classification and Design Standards AS/NZS IEC 60079.10.1:2022, AS/NZS IEC 60079.10.1:2022 SUP 1:2022 and AS/NZS 60079.14:2022.

Duration

5 Days – Classification and Design units

Location

At competency training sites around the country or at clients sites if numbers permit.

Price

Classification and Design (six units competency) $3,750 GST exempt

PaymentPlease note that until payment is received, your booking is not fully secured.

Payment Options include:

Bank Transfer/Direct Deposit, or Credit Card (up to $1,500) or;
A valid Purchase Order for the total Course Fee amount (with the full amount listed).
Competency Training will hold an initial deposit of $1,500. The remaining balance of the course fee is to be paid in the following instalment upon the course commencement date as stipulated within this course booking confirmation and your invoice.

 

Dates

Upcoming Dates

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Prerequisites

See pre-requisites tab

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The Hazardous Area Classification and Design course covers the following topics:

  • Legal requirements and Australian Standards
  • Properties of explosive gases and vapours
  • Properties of combustible dusts
  • Hazardous area classification procedures and techniques, including the gathering and analysis of data relevant to the explosive hazard
  • Determination of the extent of the risk
  • Documentation of the hazardous areas zones
  • Equipment selection
  • General installation requirements
  • Electrical protection
  • Record keeping – the Verification Dossier
  • Explosion-protection techniques

The training has application in the following sectors:

  • Aviation
  • Fuel storage and dispensing
  • Marine material handling and storage
  • Mining / Coal handling
  • Petrochemical / Oil & Gas
  • Food processing and storage
  • Materials handling
  • Wastewater
  • Power generation
  • Process plants
  • Hazardous area industries

Downloads

Classification Unit Requirements

UEEHA0017 Classify areas where a combustible dust hazard may arise
UEEHA0018 Classify areas where flammable gas or vapour hazards may arise

Design Unit Requirements

UEEHA0004 Enter a classified hazardous area to undertake work related to electrical equipment
UEEHA0022 Determine the explosion-protection requirements to meet a specified classified hazardous area
UEEHA0021 Design explosion-protected electrical systems and installations
UEEHA0029 Plan electrical installations for hazardous areas

To attain all units of competency the following pre-requisite evidence is required, students are required to present the below evidence to complete the units of competency listed. Students will only be issued a SOA for the units of competency that meet the requirements:

  • Bachelor Degree
  • Advanced Diploma

Classification Unit requirements

Entry in the HACD course requires that students hold a bachelor’s degree for the following units:

  • UEEHA0017 Classify areas where a combustible dust hazard may arise
    &
  • UEEHA0018 Classify areas where flammable gas or vapour hazards may arise

Design Unit requirements

  • UEEHA0004 Enter a classified hazardous area to undertake work related to electrical equipment (no Pre-requisite)
  • To undertake UEEHA0022 Determine the explosion-protection requirements to meet a specified classified hazardous area. The student must have a  SOA to AQF level 6 Advanced Diploma or a Bachelor Degree to install, maintain, inspect and/or engineer electrotechnology equipment and installations and hold UEEHA0004 Enter a classified hazardous area to undertake work related to electrical equipment.
  • To undertake UEEHA0021 Design explosion-protected electrical systems and installations the students must hold a SOA to AQTF Level 6 Advanced Diploma or a Bachelor Degree there is also the pre-requisite unit of: UEEHA0022 Determine the explosion-protection requirements to meet a specified classified hazardous area.
  • To undertake UEEHA0029 Plan electrical installations for hazardous areas the students must hold a  SOA to AQF level 6 Advanced Diploma or a Bachelor Degree there is also the pre-requisites unit of: UEEHA0004 Enter a classified hazardous area to undertake work related to electrical equipment and UEEHA0022 Determine the explosion-protection requirements to meet a specified classified hazardous area.

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