Minimum Maintenance Platform Width
Minimum Maintenance Platform Width
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My company is designing an elevated platform that extends around all sides of a large piece of equipment. The platform is 3'-0" wide, but there is a small section with a pipe interference where we need to reduce the platform width to 16" This is only a maintenance platform and would not need to meet the means of egress requirements. Are there any guidelines for what the minimum width needs to be? The minimum based on means of egress would be 22" and I also saw that scaffolding requirements may get you down to 18" or possibly even lower. Please see the attached sketch where I have indicated the reduced area of the platform. Does anyone have an answer or a good reference for me?
Thanks!
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RE: Minimum Maintenance Platform Width
Richard A. Cornelius, P.E.
WWW.amlinereast.com
RE: Minimum Maintenance Platform Width
What does the pipe look like in the elevation view?
You do what you can when you are working maintenance: Stepping over a curved pipe is done tens of thousands of times every day. Stepping past a 16 inch gap is not a problem - IF the removal path for bundles or coolers or eqpt coming out of the reactor at that location does not hit the pipe or the next eqpt past the new platform.
RE: Minimum Maintenance Platform Width
RE: Minimum Maintenance Platform Width
RE: Minimum Maintenance Platform Width