Workplace Safety
Permit-Required Confined Spaces: Entrant (Spanish)
Course description
Over 2 million workers enter permit-required confined spaces annually, but less than 15 percent are trained to recognize common hazards like oxygen deficiency, engulfment, entrapment, and other safety and health threats from energized systems and toxic materials. Fortunately, there are effective and well-established safe practices, testing protocols, and hazard controls that can prevent injuries and illnesses caused by these hazards in confined spaces. This training session provides information on these safe practices for workers designated as authorized entrants for permit-required confined spaces.
Course Duration: 36 min
Learning objectives:
At the completion of this course, the participant will be able to:- Define the characteristics of a confined space and permit-required confined space
- Recognize the hazards of confined space entry, including the mode, symptoms, and consequences of exposure to hazards
- Describe the safe practices for testing, monitoring, ventilation, communication, and other tasks necessary for safe entry and exit
- Identify appropriate personal protective equipment, or PPE
- Recall the methods to communicate with the attendant about entrant status and dangerous situations or conditions
- Recognize the indicators to evacuate the confined space