Confined Space

$75.00

WARNING: You will have 14 days from the purchase date to complete this training or you will need to start over and repurchase your training.

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