The common cause of confined space accidents is that workers enter the confined space to work without taking appropriate protective measures, resulting in poisoning or suffocation.
To ensure the safety of working in confined spaces, it is crucial to take appropriate precautions.OCEANUS recommends that you keep in mind 5 safety strategies:
1.Before entering a limited space, you must understand the relevant regulations for limited space operations in detail and develop detailed operating procedures. At the same time, strict training is provided to the operators to ensure that they understand the air conditions in the limited space for safe testing. After all, 85% of fatal accidents in confined spaces occur to untrained workers.
2.Understanding the gas hazards that may exist in confined spaces is critical to reducing risk. Before entering every confined space, identify potential hazards and ensure workers fully understand how to respond. Only by knowing the potential risks well can operators pay more attention to warning signals and ensure personal safety.
3.Choose the OC-1000 portable gas detector, which is suitable for personal safety protection, inspection operations, regional monitoring, limited space operations, and safe measurement of real-time concentrations of toxic and harmful gases and combustible gases in oil wells, mines, passages, or tanks. Can measure up to 5 gases simultaneously. In order to ensure that the gas detector can accurately read the gas concentration in a limited space, an external pump adapter must be equipped before operation, and the air inlet can be connected to a hose. With the help of an external pump adapter, you can easily switch from diffusion mode to pumping mode, actively extract toxic, harmful and flammable gases in a limited space, and learn the concentration of each gas immediately so that you can take better safety measures.
4.Gas conditions in confined spaces can change at any time, so continuous monitoring is critical. In order to let everyone on site know whether there is a gas hazard, by using the OC-1000 portable gas detector, a clear signal mark specially designed for a specific environment can be used to promptly determine whether flammable or toxic gases exceed the standard and alarm, discover and respond to potential risks, and ensure Safety of workers.
5.When the gas concentration reaches the alarm value, the gas detector will immediately send out an alarm signal. The OC-1000 portable gas detector has multiple alarm methods to protect your safety. It can ensure that workers can promptly and accurately transmit alarm information to them in various emergencies, thereby maximizing the safety of workers.