Lou hoods&more
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When walking a duct, I have body harness-attendant-air montoring, and use lock out tag out... My understanding is it's necessary due to OSHA.....or not?
Phil Ackland said:You should be ensuring that the company you are doing this for is aware of what you are doing and that they are A) paying you accordingly and B) okay with what you are doing. If there is an accident they will carry some degree of liability, no matter what they say. And so they should -- it should be their (not your) responsibility that the exhaust system should be safe for servicing. It should be your responsibility to do the job safely or be willing to not do it until they (the system owner) fixes the safety problem.
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I stay away from any job that would involve entering a duct. The fact that I am 6'2" and about 250 lbs had a lot to do with this decision, but mainly because there are easier ways to make money and sell cleanings. Any time I have approached a customer with an inaccessible system the first thing they ask is "what's the cost?". Until they are required by an authority to have the system properly cleaned, and threatened with loss of business due to restaurant closing for maintenance, they will choose to have the system cleaned insufficiently for less dollars. I think Newton wrote a law concerning this....maybe Confucious. Until things change I am treating multi story buildings the same as oriental cleanings, let the cheap guy take the job and the liability.