The Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) has been striving constantly to improve its safety performances. Giving top priority to gas safety, the management has ensured that no stone is left unturned in procuring and installing necessary equipment, technical interventions, consulting experts in the area of gas safety and imparting gas safety training to personnel, officials stated.
While ensuring gas safety, the BSP management has installed 190 fixed type CO gas monitors-cum-detectors with audio-visual facility at different locations of gas prone area in the Plant, distributed 564 portable CO gas monitors to different shops, fixed carbon monoxide (CO) gas monitors inside pump house at different levels with display and audio-visual alarm, portable CO monitors in adequate numbers have been provided to the employees. Supervisor entering underground pump house would necessarily carry portable carbon monoxide gas (CO) monitor.
All groups working in Pump House area have been provided adequate number of portable CO monitors, online monitoring of water pressure and flow of the GCPs with audio-visual alarms at BF control room has been provided. In case of tripping of pumps or pipe leakage, blast furnaces control will also get signal and alarm along with GCP control.
Online monitoring with audio visual alarms for GCP pump discharge header pressure has also been implemented in pump house. Sufficient number of gas masks is available in the Pump House Control Room for using it during emergency. Besides, intensive training programmes were conducted for use of gas mask. NDT testing of discharge header and connected pipe lines of GCP group pumps has been carried out to assess pipeline immediately. In case of thickness below acceptable limit, pipe line jacketing or replacement will be done and NDT testing of 2163 meter pipelines conducted.