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Towards creating a safe work place through Positive Isolation
In order to strengthen Safety practices in
TCIL, it has been decided by the company to roll out Positive
isolation practices in the organization, to start with a survey
was conducted by an external expert recommended by Corporate
Safety, Tata Steel, on 13th May 2011.
Study of existing processes/ practices
inside works by expert team along with TCILs positive isolation
core team. Also an awareness session was organized which was
attended by Chief(Works), TCILs Positive Isolation core team,
Safety professionals and function/department heads.
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The objective is to minimise risks
from any potential accidental or unexpected start-up of
machinery or plant, movement of materials during
servicing or any other interaction or contact with or
exposure to hazardous energy, which may be in the form
electricity, gas, oil, water and other fluids, air,
steam, oxygen, or other stored energy sources.
Isolation means the condition into
which equipment or plant is placed when all sources of
potentially damaging energy are prevented or blocked by
the operation of isolators. Prior to starting work where
a person could be endangered by the operation of plant
or equipment or the release of stored energy, the plant,
equipment or process must be properly isolated, stored
energy released, the source of energy isolated.
Isolators being devices that physically prevents the
transmission or release of potentially damaging energy.
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