Contractor : Orascom Confined Space Evaluation Ref. No.

Module 4 - Transformer Basement 42

Supervisor : Scope: painting and touch up
Assessment Date : 28-3-2017
Task : Cold 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  trip hazard  Safe access, Housekeeping must be conducted daily to assure clean and
entrance?) empty
(Entrance / Entry  Slip hazard, restricted access,  Provide enough and suitable means of egress,
Into…?) Collapse of Scaffold

(Manner of moving about  Slip hazard, trip hazard (walking)  Access to be cleaned and empty of obstacles.
inside, e.g. crouching,
crawling, walking…?)
(Ventilation…?)  Suffocating hazards  Provide proper and good ventilation by providing exhausting and venting
 Inhalation of hazardous means (mechanical ventilation)
 Contact with paints / solvents  Suitable and sufficient fume extraction shall be implemented where there
lead to Dermatitis / Skin could be a build-up of flammable or explosive paint vapours.
disorders.  Where possible designers shall ensure that non-flammable paints are
 Fire / explosion because of specified.
Flammable vapours in  Personnel shall ensure that they wash their hands, arms and face
atmosphere. thoroughly after paint spraying operations to remove any paint or solvent
contaminants off the skin.
(Specific activities ,e.g.  Back injuries, Disc injuries,  Manual handling in proper and right way
grinding while on his ligament & tendon injuries,
back or other awkward muscular & nerve injuries, Back
position)
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Pain
(Work area within the  Collapse of Scaffold  Full body harness must be worn and properly hooked-up while working
confined space, on a  Falling of loose clamps, tubes, @ heights.
ladder, slopped floor, and couplers  Only authorized & qualified scaffolders shall perform the job.
scaffold…?)  Falls from heights  Loose clamps, tools and other materials to be stored/ handled with
caution.
(Tools and equipment  Electric shock / burns  Use the right and correct size tools.
used inside the space…?)  Fire, electrocution, explosion  All hand tools shall be inspected before use to ensure they are in good
and arc-eye. condition
 Eye injury due to flying grinding  Proper lighting will be provided to ensure sufficient visibility
sparks or welding arc rays  Earth leakage switches (or GFCI) on all circuits designed to trip on a
 Hand/fingers caught in between 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.
(Gasses, fumes or  Inhalation of hazardous  Fire extinguisher to be existed before and during work, fire blanket.
vapors…?)  Fire hazards  Provide proper and good ventilation by providing exhausting and venting
 Suffocating hazards means
 Maintain suitable and acceptable Oxygen and gases levels in the
environmental workplace to prevent suffocation or fire hazards
(Exiting manner…?)  Tripping hazards  Provide enough and suitable means of egress, exit ways or ladders
 Falling from heights  Confined space watcher, fire watcher to be at the entry of the confined
space
(Make area safe before  Cleaning the whole area from  Person(s) must be assigned to a fire watch during and for at least 30
leaving) chemical containers remaining minutes after all cutting/welding ceases.
 Housekeeping should be applied
 A fire alarm pull station or means of contacting the fire department (i.e.
after finishing the work inside
2-way radio or phone) available and accessible to fire watch person(s).
basement
 Fire watch person(s) are to be supplied with multi-purpose dry
chemical, portable fire extinguisher and trained in its use.
(In the event of an
emergency, can the
entrant be self-rescued
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or assisted rescue…?)
(Others…?)

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.