Safety matters, especially in water jet blasting!
Water blasting is a large-scale version of pressure washing. While you might pressure wash/power wash your vinyl fence at home, professionals at Jet Blast Inc. use water blasting machines to clean and prepare the surfaces of storm and sewer drains, commercial tanks, power plant heat exchangers, quarries, and ship hulls. You can read all about the main purposes of water blasting. More importantly, though, how important is safety in water blasting?
Occupational Hazards of Water Blasting, Etc.
Water blasting machines can release streams of water at a pressure as high as 40,000 psi, strong enough to do quite a bit of damage if it pointed the wrong direction. Along with water blasting you might find industrial vacuum trucks, which also exert a lot of power. Both kinds of technology could easily injure someone if they were careless.
The setting in which the water blasting takes place is also of huge concern for worker safety. The job could be in a confined space like a tank or tunnel or at a great height like the top of a ship or a deep pit. Confined spaces involve a lot more risks than the average person might know, such as the absence of oxygen, the presence of toxic gaseous chemicals, and the combustion of flammable gasses. Other risks include engulfment, falls, etc. A confined space like a tank or culvert is not a place designed for human occupation, having a high risk of entrapment and lack of good air.
How Important Is Safety in Water Blasting?
It’s safe to say that safety is of utmost importance in the water blasting industry. Without thorough training and education, it is impossible to know how to operate the project without risking injury and even death. Even semi and fully automatic water blasting jobs need at least one person to know how to man the machine well.
Jet Blast: One of the Best!
Jet Blast Inc. follows all the laws regarding water blasting safety like those set by NIOSH, MOSH, and OSHA. Clients can rest knowing that all employees on the job have the best safety training in the business.
Contact Jet Blast Inc. Today!
Jet Blast® Industrial Services strives every day in an effort to provide our customers with the best service and equipment possible. Providing a safe and stable workplace has allowed us to keep a team of quality people, with most having a tenure of 15 – 25 years with Jet Blast®. With all that experience under one roof, we have been able to provide reliable 24-hour service since 1979. I believe this helps to set us apart from the competition.
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