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Document ID (ISN)24438
CIS number 76-46
ISSN - Serial title Cahiers de notes documentaires - Sécurité et hygiène du travail
Year 1975
Convention or series no.
Author(s)
Central Coordinating Committee, National Sickness Insurance Fund (Comité central de coordination, Caisse nationale de l'assurance-maladie), Paris, 12 June 1975.
Title Work in vats and tanks
Original title Travaux dans les cuves et réservoirs. [in French]
Bibliographic information 4th quarter 1975, No.81, Note No.988-81-75 (Recommandation n°119), p.517-523.
Abstract Amended version of Recommendation No.113 (CIS 75-50), drawing the attention of undertakings and employees to the particular risk of asphyxia presented by cartridge filter masks when incorrectly worn in inadequately aerated premises. The other provisions of Recomendation No.113 remain unchanged.
Descriptors (primary) France; vats; storage tanks; work in confined spaces
Descriptors (secondary) gas removing respirators; shutdown procedure; gas freeing; escape and rescue; supervision of dangerous work; legislation; subcontractors; directive; comment on directive; oxygen deficiency
Document type F - Information notes, codes of practice, standards
Subject(s) Other equipment and plant
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Confined spaces