Protecting workers in confined spaces with effective ventilation tools
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What is confined space? And why would you want to take a python with you? Why would you go there?
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Sending workers in a confined space requires careful planning. Effective ventilation tools may be required. An air purifier with a flexible python hose can provide the necessary respiratory protection.
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What is confined space?
And why would you want to take a python with you?
Why would you go there?
Hinders the activities of employees who must enter, work in, and exit it
Has limited or restricted entry or exit
Not designed for continuous employee occupancy
Includes under-ground vaults, tanks,storage bins,manholes, pits,silos,process vessels,and pipelines
Confined Space
Who works in confined spaces?
Many types of workers may occasionally enter a confined space in order to complete an assignment or to solve a problem.
For example, an electrician may enter a crawlspace to troubleshoot a wiring problem or a welder may enter a [empty] tank to make a repair.
Confined spaces differ from industry to industry. Here’s a link to a Google search for confined space images: http://bit.ly/15G9p0s.
All work to be carried out in a confined space is regulated by OSHA and must be carefully planned.
Planning should include consideration of a range of potentially hazardous circumstances, from temperature extremes to poor air quality.
The photo on the left shows a welder working in a corner in all-metal festoon housing, a staple of the oil industry.
[There a photo of a festoon house on our blog.]
The welder is working where two walls and the ceiling meet.
At Sentry Air, we want hazardous fumes removed from the breathing zone of welders in similar situations.
Air quality for welders
Pythons for confined spaces
Our welding fume extractors can be equipped with fire-retardant, extremely flexible “python” hoses that can be snaked
into confined spaces to capture hazardous welding fumes before they can be inhaled by the welder.
Available in variedlengths and two
diameters
Guard grill preventsaccidental capture of
small objects
Magnetic capturehood secures to metallic fixtures
Python & CFM: useful tools
A “python” hose attached to a fume extractor with appropriate air flow [CFM or cubic feet per minute] may be just the tool you
need for confined space operations.
www.sentryair.com
Model 200 Portable Mini Fume Extractor
up to 100 CFM
