Carrying out a safe and secure weighing operation of the hazardous and inflammable chemicals in the petrochemical industry poses a big challenge to the material handlers. The priority is to weigh dangerous and explosive chemicals in a safe and secure manner, and avoid accidental explosion that can cause harm to people and property. Many such industries generate inflammable vapors and this increases the risk of ignition, resulting into a major accident.

Weight measurement operation is an essential part of the daily process and it considerably increases the risk of fire due to electrical spark or heat generated from the internal circuits of the floor scales, during the weighing operation. To avert such a threat it is necessary to install a safe floor scale, which does not generate electrical or heat energy that can trigger an explosion in the volatile atmosphere of the facility.

The answer lies in installing an explosion proof floor scale that is intrinsically safe and does not generate enough electrical or heat energy to trigger an explosion in an inflammable environment. These scales are therefore also called intrinsically safe scales. The weighing scale follows the National Electrical code and is made up of special components and materials. The internal circuits, cables and components layout are designed in such manner that the floor scale can neither generate electrical spark nor heat energy, to ignite the vapors in the vicinity and cause a destructive explosion.

This is a salient feature of the explosion proof floor scale and allows the workers to carry out the loading and unloading operation on the floor scale without any fear of triggering an explosion at the workplace. The inbuilt protection helps to protect the lives of the workers by considerably reducing the threat of fire or explosion.

Though the explosion proof floor scale is costly because of the special components used, it is a very safe option in highly dangerous and volatile industrial environment where there is a constant threat of explosion that can cause immense damage to life and property. Further it does not impede the normal operations of the facility as it does not need safety checks, now and then, from the safety department. This is because all the requisite safety features have been already incorporated into it during the manufacturing process, making the explosion proof floor scale very reliable for use in hazardous environment.