Contractor : Orascom Confined Space Evaluation Ref. No.

Module 4 – HRSG 41,42

Supervisor : Scope: welding, cutting, grinding and scaffolding erection
Assessment Date : 28-3-2017
Task : Hot Work
Name of Assessors : 1.Mohamed Abdel Fattah 3. Kopus
2.Mohamed Bakr 4.Ahmed Khaled

Task Steps Potential Hazards / consequences Controls - Additional Measures

(Access to the
entrance?)
(Entrance / Entry
Into…?)
(Manner of moving about
inside, e.g. crouching,
crawling, walking…?)
(Ventilation…?)
(Specific activities ,e.g.
grinding while on his
back or other awkward
position)
(Work area within the
confined space, on a
ladder, slopped floor,
scaffold…?)
 trip hazard
 Slip hazard, restricted access,
Collapse of Scaffold

 Crouching through the open
 Slip hazard, trip hazard (walking)
 Suffocating hazards
 Inhalation of hazardous Welding
fumes.
 Back injuries, Disc injuries,
ligament & tendon injuries,
muscular & nerve injuries, Back
Pain
 Collapse of Scaffold
 Falling of loose clamps, tubes,
and couplers
 Falls from heights
 Safe access, Housekeeping must be conducted daily to assure clean and
empty
 Provide enough and suitable means of egress,
 Signs to indicate low height through access
 Access to be cleaned and empty of obstacles.
 Provide proper and good ventilation by providing exhausting and venting
means (mechanical ventilation)
 Manual handling in proper and right way
 Full body harness must be worn and properly hooked-up while working
@ heights.
 Only authorized & qualified scaffolders shall perform the job.
 Loose clamps, tools and other materials to be stored/ handled with
caution.
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(Tools and equipment  Electric shock / burns
used inside the space…?)  Fire, electrocution, explosion
and arc-eye.
 Eye injury due to flying grinding
sparks or welding arc rays
 Hand/fingers caught in between
(Gasses, fumes or  Inhalation of hazardous Welding
vapors…?) fumes.
 Fire hazards
 Suffocating hazards
(Exiting manner…?)  Tripping hazards
 Falling from heights
(Make area safe before  sparks and heat might spread
leaving) and may cause Fire and
explosion
(In the event of an
emergency, can the
entrant be self-rescued
or assisted rescue…?)
(Others…?)
 Use the right and correct size tools.
 All hand tools shall be inspected before use to ensure they are in good
condition
 Proper lighting will be provided to ensure sufficient visibility
 Earth leakage switches (or GFCI) on all circuits designed to trip on a
leakage current.
 Fire Blankets should be installed properly & adequately to contain all
welding slag and/ or grinding sparks within the work area.
 A welder must have a metal bucket for spent electrodes, disc etc.
 Trained Fire watcher should be posted.
 Fire extinguisher to be existed before and during work, fire blanket.
 Provide proper and good ventilation by providing exhausting and venting
means
 Maintain suitable and acceptable Oxygen and gases levels in the
environmental workplace to prevent suffocation or fire hazards
 Provide enough and suitable means of egress, exit ways or ladders
 Confined space watcher, fire watcher to be at the entry of the confined
space
 Person(s) must be assigned to a fire watch during and for at least 30
minutes after all cutting/welding ceases.
 Fire watch person(s) are to be supplied with multi-purpose dry
chemical, portable fire extinguisher and trained in its use.
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Reference to the NCP Construction Safety Manual 23.3 (1);

‘Confined spaces are identified as any area with a limited means of access / egress and subject to oxygen deficiency, accumulation
of flammable vapors, or any airborne contaminants that exceeds the Permissible Exposure Limits’.

Reference to OSHA 1910.146 Appendix A - refers to 1910.146(b);

“Confined Space”, means a space that;
1. Is large enough and so configured that an employee can bodily enter and perform assigned work; and
2. Has limited or restricted means for entry or exit (For example, tanks, vessels, silos, bins, hoppers, vaults, and pits are spaces
that may have limited means of access & egress.
3. Is not designed for continuous employee occupancy.

“Permit required confined space (permit space)’ means a confined space that has one or more of the following characteristics;
1. Contains or has a potential to contain a hazardous atmosphere;
2. Contains a material that has the potential for engulfing an entrant;
3. Has an internal configuration such that an entrant could be trapped or asphyxiated by inwardly converging walls or by a floor
which slopes downward and tapers to a smaller cross-section; or
4. Contains any other recognized serious safety or health hazard.