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Just embarking on some work to do Hazardous Area Classification and Risk Assessment.
Does anyone have any advice on what constitutes a 'competent person' as per the DSEAR guidance 'Employers should ensure that whoever carries out the assessment should be competent to do so'?
Thanks in anticipation.
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For HAC recognise and understand the various guidance standards (IP 15/BS60079-10/IGE/SR/25)
Be able to do the maths calculations
Understand the basic physics/chemistry of the hazardous materials
Develop a suitable risk assessment methodology.
Understand the ATEX requirements if you are going to make recommendations regards levels of protection and/or electrical standards/protection rating.
Depends which direction you are coming at this from - operations/operators point of view or from a design perspective.
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Back in 2009 I attended a 2 day DSEAR course which covered risk assessment and zoning, provided by Connaught (now Santia - http://www.santia.co.uk/) a very good course with a decent hand out, might be worth giving them a try.
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IMO it depends upon the complexity of the process / situation.
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