REQUIREMENTS FOR EXPLOSIVE ZONES AND FIRE EXPLOSIVE CATEGORIES IN THE DESIGN OF INDUSTRIAL PREMISES

The significance of the article is based on necessity of the industrial premises classification in terms of fire and explosion hazardous. The classification is carried out on the stage of the development project documentations and it is subject to Federal Law No. 123 and fire codes. The classifications of explosive zones and fire and explosive categories in premises are two directions. The specialists are faced by significant differences of those directions in the design of industrial premises, that leads to the category classification as fire hazardous in spite of explosive zone on premise. In this case the safety aspect for workers has not decided yet. Similar distinctions are stipulated by the different requirements in the matter of explosive hazardous of the internal space of premises. The difference in two directions of the classification is involved the discrepancy their objects, methods and other aspects. The comparison of the fire codes and federal law has exposed the impossibility of the combined usage of the classification results for explosive zones and categories in premises in terms of workers safety determination