Hazardous Location Lighting
In industrial environments, you need lighting solutions specifically designed to reliably operate in extreme conditions and meet hazardous location safety codes. You can count on Wesco to help you validate suitability, streamline specs and deploy LED solutions across multiple plants and processes for a wide range of industries. Our comprehensive portfolio of reliable hazardous location (hazloc) lighting solutions is backed by application engineering and audit-ready documentation.
Hazloc Lighting Solutions: Safer, Simpler, Proven
Wesco has the harsh and hazardous expertise and broad portfolio to provide hazloc lighting solutions that meet your unique applications while delivering operational wins and lower total cost. We simplify compliance by validating and documenting solutions for your specific Class/Division and Zone frameworks.
Class/Division (NEC/CEC)
Class I (gases/vapors), Class II (dusts), Class III (fibers/flyings); Div 1 (hazard present), Div 2 (abnormal)
Zones (NEC 505/CEC; IECEx/ATEX ref)
Gas/vapor: Zones 0/1/2; Dust: Zones 20/21/22
We will work with your team to help ensure longer fixture life, fewer interventions, safer access and optics that improve visibility in challenging environments. SKU standardization, consistent spares and coordinated shutdown logistics reduce maintenance and unplanned downtime.
Food and Beverage
In food and beverage, products need to withstand dust, aggressive washdown, temperature swings and shatter risk. Wesco offers washdown-rated, shatter-safe options, materials compatible with sanitation chemicals and optics that can be tuned for inspection tasks.
Mining
With surface and underground processing that includes mobile equipment, crushers and conveyor areas, finding effective lighting for mining poses unique challenges. Rugged fixtures with impact and vibration ratings and wide temperature drivers can withstand harsh mining conditions. Optics and aiming guidance can help improve operator visibility.
Oil and Gas
Oil and gas environments often contain gases and vapors, corrosive chemicals, vibration and outdoor extremes. Wesco offers explosion-proof and corrosion resistant luminaires that meet gas group and T code ratings and have wide temperature drivers and rugged mounts. Photometrics can help with glare control in process areas.
Pulp and Paper
Humidity, steam, chemical corrosion, dust and washdown near processes can make finding the right lighting for pulp and paper mills a challenge, but Wesco has you covered with sealed, corrosion-resistant luminaires. We phase installs with outages and package certificates and photometrics for EHS binders.
Steel Mills
Steel mills with high ambient heat, heavy vibration and impact, metal fines and corrosion require high-ambient, ruggedized fixtures with guards and coatings. Wesco has the right solutions and will target hard-to-access bays first to cut climbs and LOTO time.
Connect with our hazloc lighting team and schedule a walk-through, where we can help identify the right lighting strategies to meet your harsh industrial applications.
Featured Partners
Wesco offers deep portfolios of world-class products for area, linear, high/low bay and egress lighting across Class/Division and Zone frameworks.
Wesco’s Streamlined Process
1. Assess
Walk-through and fixture census against your current classification.
2. Design
Photometrics and supplier application-engineering validation.
3. Procure
SKU standardization, stocking plans and shutdown-ready logistics.
4. Implement
Optional turnkey; commissioning and training.
5. Sustain
Warranty, spares strategy and ongoing optimization.
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Get in touch with our hazloc lighting experts.
Wesco is your partner to help you reduce risk, improve uptime and simplify standards across your industrial facility. Get started by booking a free hazloc lighting walk-through today.