Confined Space Entry

Many workplaces contain spaces that are considered "confined" because their configurations hinder the activities of employees who must enter, work in, and exit them. A confined space has limited or restricted means for entry or exit, and it is not designed for continuous employee occupancy. Confined spaces include, but are not limited to underground vaults, tanks, storage bins, manholes, pits, silos, process vessels, and pipelines.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) uses the term "permit-required confined space" (permit space) to describe a confined space that has one or more of the following characteristics:

contains or has the potential to contain a hazardous atmosphere;

contains a material that has the potential to engulf an entrant;

has walls that converge inward or floors that slope downward and taper into a smaller area which could trap or asphyxiate an entrant;

or contains any other recognized safety or health hazard, such as unguarded machinery, exposed live wires, or heat stress.

This course provides introductory and extended knowledge to participants on confined space. It also provides details into creating a confined space program, understanding the permit to work system and the roles of participants in the confined space entry operations. Participants to this course would be able to;

Know what a confined space is.

Identify and understand Permit-Required Confined Spaces.

Identify and understand non-Permit Confined Spaces.

Understand the hazards associated with Confined Spaces.

Understand the roles associated with confined space entry.

Have an awareness understanding of emergency rescue.

Have an awareness understanding of the types of PPE that may be required for entry into confined spaces.

Understand the roles and responsibilities of: Attendant, Entrant and Supervisor

Understand the process for testing the Atmosphere in a confined space.

The Permit to work system

Confined Space Entry Written Program

How to isolate, ventilate and evaluate the space in preparation for entry and

Understand the 3 types of rescue techniques namely; Non-entry, Entry by Others and Entry by Trained employees from the company