When working in hazardous areas, specialized trucks and service vehicles are typically equipped with simple bonding lines, to provide a means of grounding or an equipotential link from the vehicle to the plant equipment that is the subject of the operation (pipeline, reactor, tank etc). However the mere provision of these bonding lines does not verify that they are used correctly, and that they are in a satisfactory working condition.  For this reason, many organisations in industrial and emergency response situations now use self-testing bonding systems like the Bond-Rite or Trans-Rite to add an important safety check into their operations. These type of systems use Intrinsically-Safe monitoring techniques to test the bond, either between the vehicle and the plant equipment, or back to a verified ground point.

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