Tag: hot work

The Republic of Marshall Islands issued a marine notice, setting out the revised requirements for hot work, including all ships, not just tank ships and combination carriers. Hot Work involves sources of ignition or temperature sufficiently high enough to cause the ignition of a flammable gas mixture.

The North P&I Club has issued loss prevention briefing on the issue of hot work and advises about the risk, hot work policies and procedures and how to control it. The Club says that the risk of damage and injury of hot work has long been identified and suggests to keep the systems controlling hot work simple, brief and easy to understand.

Crew gets found conducting welding operations in an area of a vessel where hot work was forbidden

Hot Work - The Need for Effective Controls