Yunku Industrial Safety

"Confined space" means a closed or semi-closed facility or place with narrow entrance and exit, poor ventilation, occupational safety hazards and possible hazards to the physical health and life safety.

In the petrochemical industry, confined space operation is a common type of hazardous work. These operations usually involve closed, narrow, humid, high temperature or toxic and harmful gases and other environments, if not properly handled and operated, may lead to serious safety accidents. Therefore, it is important to understand the characteristics and considerations of confined space operations. It is easy to gather toxic and harmful gases or insufficient oxygen, and long-term operation is easy to lead to poisoning and suffocation, and the operation is dangerous. Therefore, it is very important to master the necessary safety measures for confined space operation.

Tank operation is one of the common confined space operations in petrochemical industry. These operations usually involve cleaning, maintenance, and testing of containers such as oil tanks, gas tanks, and chemical tanks. Due to the closed, humid, flammable and explosive environment in the tank, special attention needs to be paid to safety measures, such as ventilation, wearing protective equipment, and using explosion-proof tools.

Pipeline work is another common type of confined space work in the petrochemical industry. These operations usually involve the repair, replacement, inspection and other work on the pipeline. Due to the narrow internal environment of the pipeline, flammable and explosive, toxic and harmful gases, etc., special attention needs to be paid to safety measures, such as ventilation, wearing protective equipment, and using explosion-proof tools.

In-tower work is another common type of confined space work in the petrochemical industry. These operations usually involve cleaning, maintenance, testing and other work on the tower. Due to the closed, humid, flammable and explosive environment in the tower, special attention needs to be paid to safety measures, such as ventilation, wearing protective equipment, and using explosion-proof tools.

Reactor operation is another common confined space operation in the petrochemical industry. These operations usually involve cleaning, servicing, and testing the reactor. Due to the closed environment in the reactor, high temperature and pressure, inflammable and explosive, toxic and harmful gases, special attention needs to be paid to safety measures, such as ventilation, wearing protective equipment, and using explosion-proof tools.

Confined space refers to all kinds of closed and semi-closed facilities and places such as furnaces, towers, tanks, silos, ponds, tank cars, pipes, flues, etc., and tunnels, sewers, ditches, pits, wells, pools, culverts, valve chambers, sewage treatment facilities, etc. In the city, cabins, underground concealed works, closed mines with poor ventilation should also be regarded as confined space operations.