Hi, is there any guidance out there on working on hot surfaces? I am interested to hear issues regarding isolation of all services etc, is this a must?

As walker has stated, more information is required If you have a situation/scenario that you could provide a little more information on then someone may be able to help. If not then perhaps a more detailed generalisation of what type of work you are thinking about may assist in getting some feedback.

Ok I’ll start the ball rolling: Obviously if isolation is possible then that’s great; may possibly require work to be undertaken outside of normal working hours. |If isolation is not possible then other control methods such as some form of temporary/movable lagging blanket may be placed over the pipes (if they are at low level of course) which may help reduce the risk. If pipes at high level then this would not be so easy. I suppose it will depend on where the pipes are situated and how close to the pipes the work be carried out is. Plus of course depending on the temperature in the basement duct then there may well be a risk to the workers from heat stress, which may bring it back to isolation of the heat source being required, or some form of cooling, or controls on amount of time operative may be present. Think you can see where this is going…………yes its going to be down to good old risk assessment.

How hot are the pipes/surfaces? as hot pipes in the top of a power station boiler 'dead-space' are in a different league to hot pipes in a small plant room as are hot surfaces in a steel making furness so please give the tempreture as the word 'hot' in itself does not mean much