Miller Magazine Issue: 135 March 2021

74 MILLER / march 2021 The milling industry is one of the sectors most affected by dust explosions. It is a legal obligation in terms of occupational health and safety to evaluate the ATEX assessment of systems and components in both food and feed sector and to make the designs comply with the relevant legislation. In this respect, it is recommended that the designs of the components and machinery used in the milling sector must comply with the legislation and the end users using such systems should request ATEX certified products from the producers. Dust explosions and precautions to be taken in the milling industry Murat APAKHAN Hakkı EKEM Ömer Sinan ŞAHİN Vice General Manager Imas Machinery murat.apakhan@imas.com.tr R&D Manager Imas Machinery hakki.ekem@imas.com.tr Konya Technical Universty ossahin@ktun.edu.tr