General Safety

Confined Space Hazard Recognition and Safe Entry Procedure

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Confined Space Awareness Training Confined Space Awareness Training

Confined space awareness training course length is customizable based on your needs.

Confined space awareness training is crucial because working in confined spaces is established as a hazardous activity and poses risks to your employees’ safety, including toxic environments, engulfment hazards, pressure dangers and more. Effective confined space awareness training needs to be accomplished to help reduce risk and to protect employees from these hazards. Topics of discussion in this training will provide employees the skills to identify confined space hazards. Employees that have exposure to or work in or around confined spaces should attend this course. The course also focuses on confined space entry training. This program is based on 29 CFR 1910 OSHA General Industry Regulation Sub Part J General Environmental Controls 1910.146 – Permit Required Confined Spaces.

IDENTIFICATION OF CONFINED SPACES AND HAZARDS

  • Identifying permit-required confined spaces
  • Identifying associated hazards such as increased CO levels, enriched or deficient oxygen levels, presence of combustible atmosphere, etc.

EQUIPMENT & MONITORING

  • Proper utilization of gas monitoring equipment and entry permits
  • Methods to safely ventilate your confined space

INVOLVED PARTIES

  • Duties of supervisors, entrants, and attendants
  • Requirements for rescue services & personnel

RECLASSIFICATION

Steps necessary to temporarily reclassify a permit-required confined space to a non-permit space

HANDS ON & MOCK ENTRY

  • Inspection of one onsite confined space to utilize during training
  • Hands on portion utilizing onsite tripod, harness, gas meter, and ventilation devices
  • Complete walk through of mock confined space entrance including use of entry permit

REVIEW

  • Review of client’s confined space program and procedure