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Intrinsic safety according to EN IEC 60079–11

Seminar: Blueprint Intrinsic safety

The struc­tured intrin­sic safe­ty sem­i­nar for devel­op­ers

Are you new to intrin­sic safe­ty and look­ing for a clear, struc­tured approach to under­stand this type of pro­tec­tion?

Or do you already have expe­ri­ence with Ex i and want to deep­en your knowl­edge, avoid typ­i­cal pit­falls, and learn proven best prac­tices?

This sem­i­nar pro­vides a blue­print for intrin­sic safe­ty. It explains the fun­da­men­tal prin­ci­ples of intrin­sic safe­ty, the nor­ma­tive back­ground, and the spe­cif­ic require­ments of the stan­dards. Based on numer­ous prac­ti­cal exam­ples, the require­ments are dis­cussed step by step, includ­ing typ­i­cal chal­lenges in devel­op­ment and prac­ti­cal solu­tions.

€890 per par­tic­i­pant

Enquirenow for an in-house sem­i­nar

This is what you can expect:

  • Suit­able for begin­ners and expe­ri­enced devel­op­ers

  • Clear expla­na­tion of the nor­ma­tive back­ground

  • A struc­tured blue­print for mak­ing cir­cuits intrin­si­cal­ly safe

  • Dis­cus­sion of prac­ti­cal chal­lenges and proven solu­tions based on real exam­ples

  • Active par­tic­i­pa­tion: Your ques­tions are always wel­come

  • More than 150 slides pro­vid­ed after the sem­i­nar for review and recal­cu­la­tion

Aims of the seminar

The aim of this sem­i­nar is to pro­vide you with the nec­es­sary knowl­edge and under­stand­ing to safe­ly under­stand and cat­e­gorise the intrin­sic safe­ty type of pro­tec­tion in accor­dance with IEC/EN 60079–11.

Using prac­ti­cal exam­ples, you will learn to recog­nise the basic require­ments, under­stand typ­i­cal pro­tec­tion con­cepts and avoid com­mon pit­falls. You will be able to trans­fer the knowl­edge you have acquired direct­ly to your devel­op­ment projects and use it to design stan­­dard-com­­pli­ant and future-proof devices.

You will also learn how tech­ni­cal doc­u­men­ta­tion should be struc­tured so that it meets the require­ments of test cen­tres.

At the end of the work­shop, you will be able to:

  • Con­fi­dent­ly cat­e­gorise the require­ments of IEC/EN 60079–11

  • Under­stand and apply the basic prin­ci­ples of intrin­sic safe­ty

  • Recog­nise pro­tec­tion con­cepts and under­stand their require­ments

  • Avoid typ­i­cal sources of error

  • Select and dimen­sion com­po­nents

  • Devel­op ini­tial approach­es to check and cre­ate their own projects for com­pli­ance with stan­dards

Seminarcontents

  • Intro­duc­tion to intrin­sic safe­ty

  • Basics of explo­sion pro­tec­tion

  • Nor­ma­tive and legal clas­si­fi­ca­tion

  • Prin­ci­ple of intrin­sic safe­ty and appli­ca­tion of safe­ty fac­tors

  • Con­cept of count­able faults

  • Labelling in accor­dance with stan­dards and direc­tives

  • Require­ments for spe­cial com­po­nents

  • Ther­mal eval­u­a­tion of com­po­nents

  • Eval­u­a­tion of spark igni­tion

  • Dimen­sion­ing of safe­­ty-rel­e­­vant com­po­nents

  • Require­ments for sep­a­ra­tion dis­tances

  • Changes in Edi­tion 7 of the stan­dard and out­look for future devel­op­ments

  • Prac­ti­cal exam­ples and inter­ac­tive dis­cus­sions

Documents

You will then receive all the sem­i­nar doc­u­ments — more than 150 pages of knowl­edge to take away with you. The slides con­tain easy-to-under­­­s­tand exam­ples, ref­er­ences to stan­dards and lots of prac­ti­cal tips. Ide­al for read­ing, recal­cu­lat­ing and as a ref­er­ence book for your projects.

The doc­u­ments are pro­vid­ed on a USB stick and for down­load

Dates

Next sem­i­nar dates:
22 Sep­tem­ber 2026
Wup­per­tal — Spark by Hilton Wup­per­tal City Cen­tre
09:00 to 17:00

The num­ber of par­tic­i­pants is lim­it­ed to ensure inten­sive and prac­ti­cal sup­port.
Reg­is­ter ear­ly to secure your place.

Important notes on participation

Required work equip­ment:
No spe­cial equip­ment is required for the sem­i­nar. You will receive a notepad and a pen for your notes. How­ev­er, you are wel­come to bring your ques­tions and spe­cif­ic top­ics from your day-to-day work — that way you will ben­e­fit the most!

Cater­ing:
Snacks, drinks and lunch togeth­er on site are includ­ed in the price.

Cer­tifi­cate of atten­dance:
After suc­cess­ful par­tic­i­pa­tion in the work­shop, you will receive a cer­tifi­cate of atten­dance.

Conditions

890 € plus VAT per par­tic­i­pant 

Com­bined book­ing (Work­shop + Sem­i­nar):
1680 € plus VAT per par­tic­i­pant (instead of 1780 €)

The par­tic­i­pa­tion fee includes

  • all sem­i­nar doc­u­ments
  • Cater­ing dur­ing the event
  • a cer­tifi­cate of atten­dance to doc­u­ment your train­ing

The cur­rent ver­sion of the gen­er­al terms and con­di­tions apply.

Deepen your technical knowledge.

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    It was the same for me when I start­ed my own busi­ness and had to car­ry out cal­cu­la­tions for my cus­tomers’ doc­u­men­ta­tion. At that time, I was already famil­iar with the usu­al pro­grammes such as Excel or Math­cad, but these had their lim­i­ta­tions in terms of read­abil­i­ty and exporta­bil­i­ty.

    I also did a lot of cal­cu­la­tions with my pock­et cal­cu­la­tor (greet­ings to all Casio FX-991 users), but the effort involved in doc­u­men­ta­tion and the sus­cep­ti­bil­i­ty to errors is sim­ply too high.

    After a bit of research and try­ing out var­i­ous tools, I came across Cal­cpad — a pow­er­ful, yet lean tool that I would­n’t want to be with­out for my work.

    I’ve grown so fond of the pro­gramme that I’ve been sup­port­ing the devel­op­er (Hi Ned!) for a while now and am hap­py to rec­om­mend it to my clients, where it’s already being used exten­sive­ly by a num­ber of devel­op­ers.

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    Includes a prac­ti­cal Excel tem­plate!

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