IECEx Certification

Expert Solutions in Equipment and Service Facility Approvals

ICS is your trusted partner in ensuring that equipment, service facilities, and personnel meet the rigorous IEC international standards for hazardous environments. With the IECEx certification, you’re not just meeting safety standards—you’re setting the bar for reliability, strength, and uncompromising performance in hazardous environments. It ensures that your facility and equipment meet the rigorous requirements for operating safely in hazardous, explosive conditions.

Understanding the IECEx System

The IECEx System is a certification system which verifies compliance with IEC international standards relating to safety in hazardous areas. It covers equipment, service facilities and the competency of personnel.

MASC has completed the IECEx assessment process and is approved to operate within the IECEx Certified Equipment Scheme to issue IECEx Test Reports (ExTRs), IECEx Quality Assessment Reports (QARs) and Online Certificates of Conformity: Approved IECEx Certification scope

MASC is approved to operate within the IECEx-certified Service Facility Scheme to issue Certificates of Conformity covering service Facilities for the Repair & Overhaul of equipment for use in explosive atmospheres. For more information

Comprehensive Certification for Explosion-Protected Equipment

Our IECEx certification covers various protection methods for electrical and non-electrical equipment, ensuring compliance with international safety standards, including:

IEC 60079-0:

Part 0: Equipment – General requirements

IEC 60079-1:

Part 1: Equipment protection by flameproof enclosures ‘d’

IEC 60079-5:

Part 5: Equipment protection by powder filling ‘q’

IEC 60079-7:

Part 7: Equipment protection by increased safety ‘e’

IEC 60079-11:

Part 11: Equipment protection by intrinsic safety ‘i’

IEC 60079-15:

Part 15: Equipment protection by type of protection ‘n’

IEC 60079-18:

Part 18: Equipment protection by encapsulation “m”

IEC 60079-25:

Part 25: Intrinsically safe electrical systems

IEC 60079-26:

Part 26: Equipment with equipment protection level (EPL) Ga

IEC 60079-28:

Part 28: Protection of equipment and transmission systems using optical radiation

IEC 60079-31:

Part 31: Equipment dust ignition protection by enclosure ‘t’

IEC 60079-33:

Part 33: Equipment protection by special protection ‘s’

IEC 60079-35-1:

Part 35-1: Caplights for use in mines susceptible to firedamp – General requirements – Construction and testing in relation to the risk of explosion

IEC 60079-35-2:

Part 35-2: Caplights for use in mines susceptible to firedamp – Performance

IEC/TS 60079-46:

Edition 1 Explosive atmospheres – Part 46: Equipment assemblies

ISO 80079-36:

Part 36: Non-electrical equipment for explosive atmospheres – Basic method and requirements

ISO 80079-37:

Part 37: Non-electrical equipment for explosive atmospheres – Non electrical type of protection constructional safety “c”, control of ignition source “b”, liquid immersion “k

Global Recognition for Repair & Overhaul of Ex Equipment

MASC is an approved IECEx Certification Body (ExCB) for service facilities, covering:

IEC 60079-19:

Part 19: Equipment repair, overhaul and reclamation

03-5 Program:

Repair Overhaul and Reclamation
* Dusts to IEC 60079-31 “t”
* Dusts to IEC 61241-1-1 “DIP”
* Dusts to IEC 61241-1 “tD”
* Flameproof Enclosure “d”
* Increased Safety “e”
* Intrinsic Safety “i”
* Type of Protection “n”

For more information, please visit the IECEx website http://www.iecex.com

More detailed information about the process to obtain an IECEx ExTR, QAR / FA and/or CoC, available here.