The Occupational Safety and Health Standards require employers to provide training so that all employees who work near or within confined spaces have the understanding, knowledge, and skills necessary for the safe performance of their duties. This program complies with these requirements, and is a solid foundation for employers to follow up with site-specific orientation and entry exercises.
Our Confined Space Training for Entry is the most commonly required course. Confined Space Training for Rescue is necessary only if you are going to be part of a rescue team or your employer requires you to have the rescue component. Ask your employer which certification you need.
The Entry and Rescue courses have similar curriculums, but the rescue course involves on-site training and drills on pulling a rescue mannequin or a real person out of a confined space. The Entry course is a one-day certification beginning with the identification of a confined space and legal responsibilities. You will learn how to identify hazards, how to control and test for potential confined space dangers, proper PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) needed for entry and about confined space entry permits.
The course will also teach you about the entry team and its four separate functions, including the rescue team and their responsibilities. Contractor requirements are another component of the training courses and you will understand what would be expected if you were a contractor going onto a site or if a contractor came onto your site.
This course covers:
• Introduction
• Definitions of confined spaces
• Permit-required confined spaces
• Non Permit-required confined spaces
• Accident statistics, case studies
• Permit-required confined space entry policies and procedures
• Alternate entry procedures for confined spaces
• Definitions and descriptions of hazardous atmospheres
• Confined space signs and labeling
• Identifying hazards associated with confined space entry
• How to complete a confined space entry permit and hot-work permit
• Equipment used for confined space entry, including PPE, ventilators, atmospheric testing devices, retrieval apparatus, etc.
• Rules governing outside contractors
• Responsibilities of the entrant
• Rescue Considerations
• Atmospheric testing in a confined space
• Proper usage of confined space entry equipment
• Rescue and emergency notification procedures
