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#1 Posted : 22 February 2002 10:42:00(UTC)
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Posted By Jim Evans I am looking for information on the safety requirements for using high-pressure water jet cleaning equipment. Our company uses contractors for this activity quite often and I would be interested to know if there is any ACOP or specific regulation that they/we should be complying with.
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#2 Posted : 22 February 2002 12:17:00(UTC)
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Posted By Diane Warne Jim, if you search this forum and maybe the old one too, you will find answers from when a similar topic was posted before.
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#3 Posted : 22 February 2002 18:04:00(UTC)
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Posted By STEVE Hi Jim Might be able to help you, I am the safety officer for my Company and deal with all the H/P Jetting that we are involved in. We have just completed a contract that involved decontamination of low scale activity of radioactive steel. YES! The H/P Water Jetting Assc. have an ACOP albeit Voluntary, however this is backed up by the HSE. Feel free to e-mail me personally for more info if required. Steve
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#4 Posted : 23 February 2002 16:03:00(UTC)
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Posted By Peter J Harvey Try the Pressure Systems Safety Regulations 2000
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#5 Posted : 25 February 2002 13:17:00(UTC)
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Posted By Andy Hi Jim, Hope you don't mind Steve, could not reply to you directly your e-mail address being hidden. Tried to find the H/P Water Jet Assoc. No luck. Any info? WWW? Tel etc Also, is the ACOP free/digital. Thanks and regards Andy.
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#6 Posted : 25 February 2002 14:26:00(UTC)
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Posted By Joe McNicholas Try this link: http://www.waterjetting.org.uk/ There is some safety info as well as some codes of practice that you can print off. If you need any further info please e-mail me as I used to be a contractor working with high pressure water (appx 3,500 psi at 12 gallon a minute). joe.mcnicholas@centers.co.uk Regards Joe
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#7 Posted : 25 February 2002 16:16:00(UTC)
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Posted By Nicky Try http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg68.pdf Its off the HSE site, I haven't looked at it but it may help. (Under work equipment in the hazards list) regards Nicky
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#8 Posted : 26 February 2002 17:35:00(UTC)
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Posted By STEVE Hi Jim-Andy SORRY ABOUT NOT MAKING E-MAIL AVAILABLE sbooth@ntlworld.com I have experience in 3,500Psi Hot/Wash units- 30,000 Psi units. Both sets of safe systems of work need to be addressed differently due to the hazard risks being vast. Steve
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