Risk factors and safety at work in potentially explosive environments

Abstract

Nowadays, when the industrial civilization is facing more and more with the importance of human problems and the human intrinsic value, safety and health is an issue of particular importance.

Integrated occupational safety at work in potentially explosive atmospheres is translated through a knowledge of the properties of raw materials, finished products, processes, facilities and devices used during operations with potentially explosive and dangerous substances: working with unknown substances is not safe, especially in what concerns their behavior in different environmental conditions in which they can decompose or oxidize, the way in which the oxidation and its explosion effects. It is therefore necessary for each type of fuel, mixture that is potentially explosive, chemical substances with dangerous properties, to have or to develop the security information statement.