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Lighting gets Australian safety approval from UK

A Sira product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Jan 22, 2002

The reciprocal agreement that exists between Sira Certification Service in the UK and TestSafe Australia has enabled a lighting manufacturer to obtain Australian Certification for its products

The reciprocal agreement that exists between Sira Certification Service in the UK and TestSafe Australia has enabled Birmingham-based lighting manufacturer, PFP to obtain Australian Certification for their Series 7 AS hazardous area lighting product range.

As part of this agreement Sira Certification Service conducted assessment and testing to the appropriate Australian Standards, the findings were reported to TestSafe Australia providing them with the necessary technical justification required for certification.

The certificates have been issued to Thorn Lighting, who market the Series 7 AS in Australia.

Sira handles the hazardous area certification of all nine PFP lighting products and recently issued ATEX Certification for the European version of the 7 AS Range.

Quality and Development Director Geoff Nicholls explains, "We find Sira easy to deal with and flexible, they always helps us to achieve our objectives.

In this instance, we had to undertake some modifications to the product to meet the different requirements of the Australian Standards, and Sira helped to guide us through that process." As a result of successfully obtaining Australian Certification, PFP has also applied for approval to Brazilian Standards, providing Sira reports as technical justification.

PFP's Petrel range of Sira certified Atex products consists of 8w, 18w, 36w, 58w and 70w single or twin fluorescents and includes emergency luminaries up to 58w.

Compact fluorescents are also included and the complete range is now certified to Australian Standards through Sira Certification Services and TestSafe Australia Sira Test and Certification Ltd has produced a free wallchart about equipment for use in potentially explosive atmospheres.

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