ATEX & Hazardous Area Inspection Specialists

Smarter ATEX inspections. Better compliance. Greater confidence.

Hazardous area inspections are about far more than meeting a compliance requirement. They are essential for protecting people, maintaining safe operations and ensuring electrical equipment installed in explosive atmospheres continues to operate safely throughout its service life.

At Milaco Engineering, we believe ATEX inspections should also provide clarity. They should help engineering teams understand the condition of their assets, prioritise remedial work and maintain an accurate record of compliance — not create unnecessary paperwork or confusion.

That's why we've developed an inspection service that combines practical engineering experience, competent inspectors and modern digital technology to deliver inspections that are accurate, efficient and designed around the needs of today's industrial businesses.

Milaco Engineering carries out hazardous area inspections in accordance with the principles of BS EN 60079-17, supporting duty holders in meeting their obligations under the Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations (DSEAR). Whether your site contains a handful of hazardous area assets or several thousand, our inspection programmes are tailored to suit your operational requirements.

Solving the problems we've seen across industry

One of the biggest lessons we've learned over the last 15 years is that carrying out inspections is only one part of maintaining compliance. Managing the information generated by those inspections is just as important.

We've worked on sites where remedial action registers have grown year after year — not because more defects were being found, but because completed work had never been formally reviewed and signed off. Without a structured close-out process, completed remedial work remains on inspection registers indefinitely, making it increasingly difficult to identify genuine outstanding issues.

We've also seen unnecessary equipment replacements resulting from inconsistent inspections or findings that haven't been subjected to an appropriate technical review. These issues increase maintenance costs, create unnecessary workload and make compliance far more difficult than it needs to be. Our inspection management process has been designed specifically to address these challenges, so that:

• Inspection findings remain technically consistent.
• Completed remedial works are reviewed and formally closed out.
• Outstanding defect lists remain accurate and manageable.
• Inspection records are maintained digitally.
• Equipment histories remain fully traceable.
• Engineering teams always have access to current information.

Rather than creating more paperwork, our objective is to simplify hazardous area compliance.