Sira (a CSA International Company) | Conformity Assessment Solutions | Atex Certification

We are the leading body in the UK for Atex certification. Our experience and extensive knowledge of explosive equipment means we can provide Atex certification for a range of specialist areas like oil immersion, flameproofing and purged and pressurised equipment.

All products placed on the European market must be sanctioned to Atex certification guidelines and the legislation aims to provide mobile movement of goods across the European Union. The certification process hopes to create just one, universal and accepted procedure.

Certification involves an in-depth examination of their intended use and performance. A certificate will be issued when the product has passed testing and proved safe to use in hazardous areas or potentially explosive environments. 

Our certification services includes IEC 61511, SIL certification and capability, LOPA, FEAMA, IEC 61508 training, IEC 61508 approvals, and IEC 61508 certification.

IEC 61508 functional safety certificates are issued to acknowledge systems or products have the potential to harm people are reliable during operation and function to a high standard.

It ensures the safety of all electric or electronic systems and the IEC 61508 functional safety guidelines are often a prerequisite for contractual jobs involving safety-related systems.

Our area product design consultancy service can you to reduce your product's time to market. Our experienced, skilled engineered can also help with Atex, DSEAR and IECEx concepts and guidelines.

We provide a hazardous area product design consultancy to assist your compliance to engineering standards that use hazardous products. We offer this consultancy services throughout the design process.

Our hazardous area product design consultancy services include circuit specification and design, practicality for hazardous areas and management systems for hazardous areas. We also offer contingency planning and conversion on products to EU, USA and other places across the world for safe use in explosive environments.

Our hazardous area training courses and programmes include Atex traning, DSEAR training, Atex 137 training, IECEx training, IECEx competence, MCERTs training, and functional safety training that includes IEC 61508 training, IOSH training, and IOSH management training.

We provide a range of hazardous area training keeping you up to speed on the current guidelines, codes of practice and legislations.

We understand how essential it is for business sectors to be aware of these requirements and we have been the leading group for hazardous area training for the last 25 years.

IECEx certification aims to create a global certification and standard to enable goods to travel freely across the world. 

We provide not just certification but also, IECEx schemes, IECEx equipment, training for both IEC and IECEx guidelines, IECEx repair schemes, IECEx facility schemes, and QAR.

IECEx certification will help reduce the cost of multiple testing and assessment of goods as they pass through different countries with varying standards. It will make international trade faster and more efficient.

Our management systems offer certification for quality guidelines such as ISO 9001 and environmental guidelines covered in ISO 14001. We also provide certification for health and safety concepts in OHSAS 18001 and offer QAN and QAR certification services.

Our variety of management systems are UKAS accredited for engineering and manufacturing technology based businesses. So far, we have provided over 3,000 certificates to a range of industry areas and our scope of certification covers companies worldwide.