IMCASafety Flash
SIMOPS – Smoke from hot work task enters confined space
- Publisher
- IMCA · International Marine Contractors Association
- Type
- Safety Flash
- Reference
- IMCA SF 10/21
- Date
- Themes
- Confined SpaceControl of WorkHot Work and FireSimultaneous Operations
Summary
A portable fan providing fresh air to a tank cleaning operation (requiring confined space entry permit), began drawing in smoke from an oxy-propane cutting operation nearby; the workers inside the confined space were instructed to vacate the tank immediately; no-one was harmed
IMCA SF 10/21. Themes: confined space, control of work, hot work and fire, simultaneous operations.
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