Risk Assessment: Works. Electricity Lines
RISK
Persons falling onto a different level.
RISK FACTORS
- Presence of pits (part of the facilities or the ground), trenches (civil works)
- Due to working at heights:
- When using ladders to access different levels in works or in our clients’ facilities.
- When using climbing shoes to climb up/down posts and life-lines to climb up/down/move around on supports and lintels.
- When loading, unloading or placing materials in the back of trucks.
- When excavating and laying concrete support foundations.
- When getting into and out of trucks.
- When assembling and hoisting supports.
- When hanging and regulating conductive elements.
- When installing protective elements on crossings.
- In pruning work.
- When working on power transformers and switches
PREVENTIVE MEASURES
Rules for acting
- Cover holes or, otherwise, protect and signpost them.
- Respect safety distances and signs if they exist on site.
- To work at heights, preferentially use collective protective systems (platforms). Only when the risk assessment of the corresponding phase indicates that it is safe and the use of other, safer work equipment is not justified, may access and positioning techniques employing ropes be used.
- The personnel who carry out work at heights applying this type of technique is to be duly qualified in accordance with procedure PC0713:
Qualifications for workers for jobs involving special hazards. - The access and positioning techniques to be applied are included in procedure ITS56: Use of personal protective equipment for temporary work at heights. Said use is always based on a double system:
- Access System plus Safety System
- Positioning System plus Safety System
| ACCESS SYSTEM: | SAFETY SYSTEMS (CONTINUED USE DURING ACCESS AND/OR POSITIONING): |
|---|---|
| Climbing using your hands and feet |
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| POSITIONING SYSTEM: | |
| Safety belt with an adjustable anchoring element |
- The worker is to secure tools and other accessories to the harness.
- In the case of an emergency, it should be possible to immediately aid the worker.
- Workers are to receive specific training regarding these operations, their hazards and preventive, protective and emergency measures.
