Increased Safety Ex e is an explosion protection concept applied to the installation to ensure increased security against the possibility of excessive temperatures, arc and sparks from Hazardous area electrical equipment. Equipment that normally causes sparks is excluded from use within this method of explosion protection. The intention of the Ex e Increased Safety standard is to provide an impact resistant enclosure for electrical equipment and also to ensure that the contents will not produce a spark, arc, temperature or current creepage that could ignite the external flammable atmosphere in a hazardous area zone, location or workspace.