Risk Assessment: Construction and Civil Works
Workers Affected by Works Hazards
RISK
170 Exposure to noxious or toxic substances: acids (HCl), bases, all types of gases: CO, etc.
RISK FACTORS
- Due to the characteristic processes at our Client’s facilities.
PREVENTIVE MEASURES
Rules for acting
- Use gas detectors (one in each workings). Request from the Store prior to commencing work.
- Never one person alone.
Personal protection
- When necessary, an autonomous breathing mask (confined spaces).
- Special, specific suits.
Procedures to apply
- ITP57.
- Confined spaces, hazardous atmospheres: PC0526.
RISK
211/212/213/200 Fire. Explosion.
RISK FACTORS
- Our clients’ own facilities with special characteristics (e.g. Aluminium production plants, desulphurisation plants, biodiesel plants, etc). Work in premises presenting a fire or explosion hazard.
- Handling combustible materials (solvents, paint).
- Short-circuits, overcurrents or conductors in poor conditions.
- Handling of welding equipment, oxyacetylene equipment, aluminothermal welding, etc.
PREVENTIVE MEASURES
Rules for acting
- Maintaining equipment in a good state of repair.
- Keep gas bottles vertical and secured.
- Protect combustible or inflammable materials against possible sparks, etc.
- Comply with Clients’ Regulations.
- Smoking is only allowed outdoors or in designated areas.
- Do not smoke, light a flame, generate sparks or use any kind of heat source in prohibited places or in the vicinity of combustible or inflammable materials.
- Inside underground galleries and conduits, use explosion-proof lighting and, when the voltage is higher than the safety voltage, use circuit-separating transformers.
- In places with an explosion hazard, employ an appropriate measuring device (explosion meter) so as not to enter or to evacuate in the case of danger. Use ATEX equipment.
Collective protection
- Fire-fighting equipment: portable fire extinguishers of suitable efficacy in all welding jobs and in all those that involve the generation of sparks.
- Electrical protections.
Procedures to apply
- ITL19
- ITP5
- Welding. Premises presenting a fire or explosion hazard: PC0526.
