Posted By Ken Chappell Can anyone send me or point me in the right direction for a good DSEAR Risk Assessment for my companies paint spraying booth. Many thanks in andvance

Posted By CHRISTOPHER HAYWARD To take the previous post a stage further, you can't do anything until you know the physical characteristics of the materials you are spraying and then you can't do the area classifications unless you are competent. How quickly you become competent will partly depend on how clued up you are on things like physical chemistry, fire, electrical regs and engineering to start with. If you have some background knowledge in any of the above, Sira Test and Certification Lts run courses on area classification at about £250 a head. We did our assessment using an inhouse Chemical Engineer, a Chemistry graduate and a qualified electrician who had been on the above course. As with most things, the HSE don't expect this to be the domain of rocket scientists, especially SME's but I would be wary of biting off more than you can chew. I have some lots of useful stuff but little of it is electronic so if you are interested I will post it.