Confined Space Awareness and Compliance: Safe Work Practices for Confined Space Entry

Introduction:

The hazards of confined spaces are not new yet every year fatalities and injuries occur among workers who, during their jobs, are required to enter confined spaces. Entry into confined spaces may be for maintenance, repair, or statutory inspections. Accidents occur because of the inherent hazards or the induced hazards of wrong decisions. Personnel may have been insufficiently trained or have had their awareness blunted by experience.

Targeted Groups:

Safety Personnel
Planning Engineers
Entry Supervisors
Authorized Entrants

Course Objectives:

At the end of this course the participants will be able to:

Become familiar with OSHA and Confined Spaces Regulations 1997 Approved Code of Practice, HSE
Become familiar with the hazards of a confined space
Take all the necessary precautions before entering
Maintain the confined space as a safe place to work
Familiarise the delegates with different methods of cleaning and isolation

Targeted Competencies:

The OSHA standard for permit-required confined spaces
The HSE Standard on confined space entry
The inherent hazards of confined spaces
The required precautions necessary before and during entry
The risks of confined spaces
A safe system of work for confined spaces
The health hazards involved
Common confined spaces tasks and precautions
The training necessary for all involved in confined space entry

Course Content:

Unit 1: Introduction, Definitions & Risk Assessment:

Introduction
Definitions - OSHA Terminology
Risk Assessment
Reading PIDs
Work Permit Systems
Contractors

Unit 2: Occupational Health Hazards in Confined Spaces:

Occupational Health Hazards
Chemical substances Hazards
Physical Hazards
H2S and Pyrophoric iron
Washing and Changing Facilities
Contaminated Areas and Control

Unit 3: Atmospheric Testing, Cleaning and Emergency Arrangements:

Atmosphere Testing
Cleaning of Confined spaces before entry
Gas freeing of Tanks, Vessels - Use and hazards of Steam water inert gas and chemicals
Isolation - Positive Isolation, Lockout / Tag Out, Maintaining Isolation
Personnel Training and Duties
Rescue Arrangements

Unit 4: PPE, Common Tasks, and Maintaining Safety:

PPE Requirements
Entry with Breathing Apparatus / Entry without Breathing Apparatus
Ventilation & Lighting
Common Maintenance task and problems in confined spaces – Furnaces, Vessels, Tanks
Check Lists
Boxing Up, Hand Over and De-Isolation

Unit 5: Table Top Exercise:

A desktop syndicate exercise to plan an entry into a confined space. The syndicates will be given a PID and written details of the process. They will be required to program the steps and precautions for entry and cleaning before maintenance, and the precautions for the maintenance tasks to be undertaken – de-pressure, initial isolation, gas freeing and precautions, final positive isolation, and isolation positioning, cordoning off the area, PPE required, etc.

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Health, Safety & Security

Confined Space Awareness and Compliance: Safe Work Practices for Confined Space Entry

Introduction:

Targeted Groups:

Course Objectives:

Targeted Competencies:

Course Content:

Unit 1: Introduction, Definitions & Risk Assessment:

Unit 2: Occupational Health Hazards in Confined Spaces:

Unit 3: Atmospheric Testing, Cleaning and Emergency Arrangements:

Unit 4: PPE, Common Tasks, and Maintaining Safety:

Unit 5: Table Top Exercise:

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