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CONFINED SPACE LIGHTING IN HAZARDOUS AREAS USING LED

PORTABLE LIGHT FROM WOLF SAFETY
PUBLISHED 29 APR 2020

Hazardous Area Certified Lighting for Confined Spaces

LIGHTING CONFINED SPACES IN HAZARDOUS AREA WORKPLACES
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David Lyon, Sales Manager with Wolf Safety Lamp, was approached
by one of Europe’s largest passenger airlines requiring ATEX
lighting in a confined space as they needed to safely illuminate the
interior of a jet airliner’s fuel tank.
David accepted the challenge and spoke with the relevant
department about their exact requirements given the nature of the
application to reach the most reliable and safe lighting solution
certifed to the correct hazardous area classification.
Specifically he was asked to provide a safe ATEX certified hands
free lighting solution for maintenance staff carrying out vital
inspection, maintenance and repair operations inside the
potentially explosive atmosphere of the aircrafts’ fuel tanks.
This meant that routine operations were taking too long to
complete and pressure was mounting to reduce aircraft turnaround
time.
A certified portable hazardous area tank lighting solution was
needed which would supply much higher quality, brighter lighting
within the fuel tanks and would leave operators’ hands free to
concentrate on the inspection and repair work. The light source
must have the correct ATEX certification to counter the potential
risk of explosion and take into account the physical challenges of
the aircraft’s structure, including the narrow entrances and
confined nature of the tanks themselves.

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THE CONFINED SPACE LIGHTING CHALLENGE
The airline’s current practice involved technical staff using
handheld torches as they crawled and worked inside the pitch-
black tanks. This had two major disadvantages:
• The torches simply weren’t bright enough to illuminate the
confined space tank
• Operators need both hands to manoeuvre through the
confined space of the tanks and carry out maintenance and repair
tasks
Hazards of Airplane Fuel Tank Entry | Chemical & Physical
A large percentage of the work involved in properly inspecting and
modifying airplane fuel tanks and their associated systems must
be done in the interior of the tanks. Performing the necessary
tasks requires inspection and maintenance personnel to physically
enter the tank, where many environmental hazards exist. These
potential hazards include fire and explosion, toxic and irritating
chemicals, oxygen deficiency, and the confined nature of the fuel
tank itself. In order to prevent related injuries, operator and repair
station maintenance organizations must develop specific
procedures for identifying, controlling, or eliminating the hazards
associated with fuel-tank entry.
Maintenance personnel who enter airplane fuel tanks to inspect or
modify them face several potential hazards. These include
exposure to flammable and toxic chemicals, potentially harmful
atmospheric conditions, and the confined interior structure of the
tank. Operators and repair stations can protect maintenance
personnel from these hazards by developing safety procedures for
fuel-tank entry personnel. To successfully prevent related injuries,
both operators and maintenance personnel must understand the
following:
• Fuel-tank hazards
• Preparation for entry
• Conditions required for entry
• Emergency response plan

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Image: S7 Technics | Undertaking a Complex Set of B737NG Tank

Inspections – fuel tank working and the selection of confined
space lighting is safety critical where relatively small amounts of a
chemical inside one of these enclosed spaces can create
significant levels of flammable or toxic vapor.

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Area Lighting
THE LIGHTING SOLUTION
Following an on-site assessment and testing inside the aircraft the
ideal solution was found to be a lighting kit for each aircraft
containing 3 linkable LED luminaires to provide bright ambient
lighting for the tanks with 2 handheld leadlamps for close up
inspection work.
The luminaires would be suspended (by the hanging straps which
are supplied with the lamps) along the length of the fuel tank, at 2
metre intervals.
The first lamp in the chain would have a 10 metre cable to allow it
to be connected it to the 110V power source outside the aircraft.
Subsequent lights would have 2 metre cables, allowing them to be
positioned exactly where needed whilst keeping cabling to a
minimum within the confined space.
The handheld leadlamps would be hooked up inside the tanks and
taken down for close inspection work where, and as, required.

Hazardous area lighting solution provided by Wolf Safety Lamp

comprised of 3 X Wolf LinkEx LX-400 and 2 X LinkEx SP-600
Handheld Inspection Leadlamps.
CONFINED SPACE LIGHTING
The confined space lighting kit consisted of:
1 x Wolf LX-400 LinkEx™ LED 360° 110V ATX Linkable Temporary
Luminaire – 10 metre cable

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2 x Wolf LX-400 LinkEx™ LED 360° 110V ATX Linkable Temporary

Luminaire – 2 metre cable
2 x Wolf SP-600 ATEX LED Inspection Leadlamp – 10 metre cables
Pictured: Wolf LinkEx | Temporary Portable Lighting for Confined
Spaces with Hazardous Areas & Explosive Atmospheres

The range of LinkEx LED Temporary Luminaires manufactured by

Wolf Safety Lamp provides high quality ambient lighting. Each light
utilises two arrays of high power LEDs suitable for T4 temperature
class applications in hazardous areas
BENEFITS
The benefits from the new portable lighting kits were immediately
felt with the maintenance team being able to move and work hands
free in the now brightly lit confined space of the fuel tank. The
high quality EDlight from the 360° diffused lamps lessened
shadowing substantially and reduced the difficulty and time taken
to carry out work tasks – the result of which is a reduced aircraft
turnaround time and all resulting cost benefits to the airline. Three
hazardous area lighting kits were purchased initially by the airline,
before rolling out the solution to the rest of the fleet for use in
confined spaces.

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