EDITOR’S CHOICE
POWER PLANT MAINTENANCE
LOBO SYSTEMS
ADVANCED PLATFORM SYSTEMS
THE PROBLEM
Awkward and restricted access areas,
present in all power plants, create significant
hazards when working at height. Outage
and preventative maintenance tasks must
routinely be performed inside congested
plant rooms, around pipes, flanges and
exhaust vents and in tunnels where access
is extremely difficult. Further complications
occur when access is required inside
storage tanks, silos, vessels and combustion
chambers. Areas where, typically, standard
working at height equipment cannot fit.
Safety management at the power plant
begins with an organisation ensuring that
employees have fit for purpose, work at
height safety equipment, on which they have
been trained to assemble, inspect and use
safely.
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PECM Issue 38
INCREASING SAFETY &
REDUCING COST
The LOBO System is a versatile work
platform product that combines the
flexibility and strength of traditional
scaffolding with the simplicity and mobility
of tower systems. The unique and patented
hand adjustable clamp, when combined
with the tube, allows the maintenance
engineer to create a work platform, of any
shape or size, without the need for any
tools. The system is made from modular
steel components, which are easy and quick
to assemble. It flat packs for transportation
and yet is incredibly strong.
Areas, previously awkward to get to, can
now be accessed by your own engineers or
technicians whenever required.