Safety Is A Priority: Fire and Permit To Work

Safety Is A Priority: Fire and Permit To Work

🔥 Fire

🏗️ Fire knowledge and firefighting skills are needed by:

* Everyone!

* Firefighting Teams and Brigades in public places, industrial areas, complex environments, onshore and offshore.

* Onshore and Offshore Emergency Response Teams.

Fire knowledge we should know:

♨️ Rapid heat buildup, hot work, limited ventilation, and toxic smoke and gases.

🔴 Fire behavior in open and enclosed spaces.

🪖 Required equipment: Fire extinguishers (hoses, water, foam), PPE, breathing apparatus, and others.

💧 Firefighting tactics.

👥 Coordination with the firefighting team.

🧑‍💼 Management to prevent fires from spreading, treat victims, and avoid additional casualties.

🔄 Procedures for cleaning up after a fire.

2 Types of Fire Knowledge:

* Basic Fire Fighting: This knowledge will introduce you to small fires, fire extinguishers, and how to use them.

* Advanced Fire Fighting: Knowledge of fire sources, smoke, large fires in various areas, proper equipment, firefighting operations, teamwork, and how to safely exit a burning area.

🧯 Things to remember:

* Fires in enclosed spaces and offshore behave very differently from fires in open spaces and onshore.

* Understanding how heat, smoke, and toxic gases move in different areas is what allows firefighters to do their jobs properly and stay alive.

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🏢 Permit To Work

A Permit to Work (PTW) is a crucial risk management tool for safety across various industries. However, safety cannot be achieved if the PTW fails!

PTW failures occur because:

1️⃣ Unlisted Combined Risks.

All jobs can create hazards, but these combined risks are not listed in the PTW. Ultimately, work is simply carried out without any preparedness for hazards, incidents, and emergencies!

2️⃣ Unidentified Hazards.

A PTW is issued based on the work performed, but the hazards associated with that work are not included. If hazards are not listed in the PTW, they cannot be identified, prevented, and managed.

3️⃣ Isolation Assumed and Unverified.

The PTW refers to isolation, but the permittee does not physically verify it. This leads to isolation being assumed, and ultimately, an incident occurs.

4️⃣ PTW Signed, But Permittee Does Not Visit the Site.

The permittee signs the PTW in the office without visiting the worksite. A PTW signed by someone who has not seen the conditions of the worksite is simply a piece of paper, not a risk management tool.

5️⃣ Progress and Changes Not Recorded and Updated.

Various jobs can evolve during execution, resulting in new and old hazards. Unfortunately, PTWs are not updated. Work continues with an invalid PTW, and emergencies can arise that cannot be addressed.

All of this can be prevented by treating PTW not just as an administrative requirement, but as a safety tool to prevent hazards, incidents, and emergencies on the job!

🚀 Do you have any thoughts? Please share them here. 😊

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I am Astrid Amalia. I am a Researcher, Writer, and Blogger.

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