Description
Per OSHA, Confined Spaces include, but are not limited to:
Tanks – vessels – silos – storage bins – hoppers – vaults – pits – manholes – tunnels – equipment housings – ductwork – pipelines, etc.
OSHA describes a confined space as having 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
- contains any other recognized safety or health hazard, such as unguarded machinery, exposed live wires, or heat stress
United Safety Solutions Course Covers:
- Key elements of the OSHA Permit-Required Confined Spaces Regulation (29 CFR 1910.146)
- Confined spaces concepts and terminology
- The difference between confined spaces and permit-required confined spaces
- How to identify and evaluate hazards: atmospheric, mechanical, chemical
- Procedures for controlling hazards
- Duties of the entry supervisor, entrant, and attendant
- Procedures for self-rescue, non-entry rescue, entry rescue by company employees, and entry rescue by emergency responders
- Participants learn that teamwork is very important to save a life