As a safety officer What steps are required to take before carrying out confined space job ?

Before entering any confined space, a trained and experienced person should identify and evaluate all the potential hazards within the confined space. An important step in determining the hazards in a confined space is air testing.

just follow permit to work and confine space entry permit if already exist :)

Permit to Work

Job Saftey Analysis before activity

Follow the confined space protocols

 

1) evaluate confined space for hazard.

2) set permit procedure for entering

Steps:

1. Ensure space has been properly ventilated and continued during the whole period of job.

2. Test atmosphere in the space to ensure oxygen level is at 21% and absence of flamable and toxic gases.

3. Apply PTW system requirements for enclosed space entry

4. Prepare and test breathing apparatus and other safety equipment equipment to be used or put on standby at entrance of the space.

5. Check to ensure that adequate lighting is provided in the space. 

1 identification and assessment of potential harzards that may exist before and during the work

2. Evaluate the confined space

3. Establish entry procedures

4  provision of all protective equipments

1. Identify the confined space

2. Evaluate confined space for hazards

3. Establish protection procedures to control hazards

4.Set permit procedures for entering

5. Develop a rescue team

1) Take the confined space permit.

2) Keep the rescue arrangement in the site.

3) keep the oxypack in the site.

4) before entering in the confined space notedown the reading of the CO and O2 gas level and also notedown the time.

5) change the working person continusly in the intervel of 20 to 30 mins.

1-ensure there is no need or way for anyone to enter a confined space, either on purpose or by accident.

2-Before someone enters a confined space, you must give them an entry permit (written by a competent person) that includes:

• *-the names of those allowed to enter the space
• *-the time the permit is valid
• *-the things to do before work commences (eg cleansing and entry) and during work (eg continuous communication with, and monitoring of, workers)

3-display signs near the confined space entries, banning entry to anyone not listed on the entry permit. Also, install locks and fixed barriers.

4-A stand-by person must continuously monitor the conditions inside a confined space from outside the space, and where they can, observe the work being carried out.

5- Training-Your workers and their supervisors must understand the risks of a confined space, the controls that are in place, what they need to do and what a permit allows.

6- Keep a copy of your risk assessment for at least 28 days after the work in the space has finished, and keep a copy of the permit at least until the work is completed. If there is an incident in the space, keep the records for at least two years.

Keep a record of worker training for two years.

These records must be made available to us and any worker upon request.

Assessing the area to perform work

find special hazards associated with that confined space area

put controls in place

permits required to perform the jobs

workers must hold confined space tikets and be trained