Today I was going around site setting up a man down system. It's a series of access points placed in specific locations that will monitor operators location when the plant goes live. In the event they get hurt or injured emergency crews will know there triangulated position to make rescue as fast as possible.
I've been doing this most the week. Today was placing the backpacks with the unit inside and running power to it. Over the next two days we will place little GPS fobs around to simulate workers positions to make sure everything works and we are covering key locations. Once everything is sorted we will retrieve the bags and put up permanent ones later. Here's what the bag look like, it's about 35lbs.
My partner and I will take a bag and 2-3 extension cords slung around our neck and place them and mount a placard with that specific units number. Some are on ground level and others are at the very top of pretty high structures accessable by stair or a series of ladders. Today it was -20C with minor winds. Up top the wind picked up but nothing bad. These are boilers and each one needed a bag at the top. Not the deck around the very top of the stack but the platform below.
For these the only way up is those yellow ladders surrounded by a birdcage.
Some other shots from up top around site.
What did you do today?
I've been doing this most the week. Today was placing the backpacks with the unit inside and running power to it. Over the next two days we will place little GPS fobs around to simulate workers positions to make sure everything works and we are covering key locations. Once everything is sorted we will retrieve the bags and put up permanent ones later. Here's what the bag look like, it's about 35lbs.
My partner and I will take a bag and 2-3 extension cords slung around our neck and place them and mount a placard with that specific units number. Some are on ground level and others are at the very top of pretty high structures accessable by stair or a series of ladders. Today it was -20C with minor winds. Up top the wind picked up but nothing bad. These are boilers and each one needed a bag at the top. Not the deck around the very top of the stack but the platform below.
For these the only way up is those yellow ladders surrounded by a birdcage.
Some other shots from up top around site.
What did you do today?
