Does your entry procedures/practices allow for “misaligning or removing sections of lines, pipes, or ducts” as a means to isolate a PRCS? If yes, do your procedures/practices specify the length of “sections of lines, pipes, or ducts” that have to be removed in order to meet the intent of “isolation”? I can not recall where it came from, but we always used three (3) feet as our length of separation. For example, would you permit these spool pieces to be removed/rolled to isolate these lines into this space? NOTE: we will discuss the flange situation in a later post!
Those spool pieces/hoses are too short for me to count then as “removing sections of lines, pipes, or ducts“; however, they do provide for a means to isolate the space properly…
