The Practical Guide to Hazardous Area Classification (which should be really named as “The popular e-book on Hazardous Area Classification”) is now available in the DNL format. This format is far superior to an ordinary pdf, as the book is now visually rich with a “page turn” kind of look and feel. It seems that you are reading a physical book on a PC.

Furthermore, you can see the free preview of the Practical Guide to Hazardous Area Classification here and see for yourself how cool it looks. Note that the information inside is pure gold to those who are not sure how they should be classifying their hazardous areas. There has been no change in the content, but the presentation is much better, rather than the older pdf.

A new ebook on Hazardous Area Classification has been launched by Abhisam Software. This ebook in pdf form is a practical “how-to” guide to classifying hazardous areas, with easy to understand language and actual engineering drawings that detail a step by step approach to area classification for hazardous areas.

You need not actually buy this however, as all those customers who buy the Hazardous Area Instrumentation e-learning course, will automatically  get this ebook as a bonus! (A $27 value!). There are plans to publish this book also in a printed format at a later stage, but right now you can download it immediately to understand the mystery of area classification.

Engineers, safety managers and consultants working in the oil & gas, chemical processing, shipping, tank farm terminals and other similar facilities that have hazardous areas in them will find this ebook immensely useful. Find out more about it here.

This was a concept that we pioneered about five years ago.  We were the first company to make extensive use of animations in various training programs made for the process industry. A classic example is the training course on Hazardous Area Instrumentation, which makes extensive use of animations to explain concepts effectively. Similarly our training course on Safety Instrumented Systems and Gas Detectors use animation extensively.

We are happy to note that the trend has caught on and the US Chemical Safety Board, has started usage of such animations in its safety training videos. Their findings are that the viewers pay more attention, understand the concept better and hence, are more likely to actually learn the stuff.

They have even started posting these videos (part video, part animation) on their own site and also on YouTube (of course!). Here is an example of one of these videos below. It shows how an innocuous device like a level instrument float, can cause a major fire due to static electricity!