Key Issues

Confined Spaces

A confined space has limited or restricted means for entry or exit, and it is not designed for continuous employee occupancy. Confined spaces include, but are not limited to underground vaults, tanks, storage bins, manholes, pits, silos, process vessels, and pipelines. OSHA uses the term "permit-required confined space" (permit space) to describe a confined space that has one or more of the following characteristics: contains or has the potential to contain a hazardous atmosphere; contains a material that has the potential to engulf an entrant; has walls that converge inward or floors that slope downward and taper into a smaller area which could trap or asphyxiate an entrant; or contains any other recognized safety or health hazard, such as unguarded machinery, exposed live wires, or heat stress.

Nuclear power facilities have many confined spaces that need to be inspected regularly for foreign material, blockage, fluid level, or damage. Jamko has developed several models of intrinsically safe, remotely operated magnetic and non magnetic crawlers, remotely operated extendable pole cameras and submersible vision systems. All of our specialty vision systems are adaptable to accept high resolution pan, tilt and zoom cameras and high powered spot/flood lighting.