Workplace Safety
Permit-Required Confined Spaces: Entrant
Course description
Workers who enter permit-required confined spaces are potentially exposed to hazards from oxygen-deficient, energized systems, engulfment, entrapment, 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. This course is for all employees assigned to permit-required confined space entry, including supervisors, authorized entrants, attendants, and rescue personnel.
Certain roles including supervisors, authorized entrants, attendant and rescue personnel may need additional training not covered in this course.
Course Duration: 24 min
Learning objectives:
At the completion of this course, the participant will be able to:- Define the characteristics of a confined space and a permit-required confined space
- Recognize the hazards of confined space entry, including the type of hazards, symptoms, and consequences of exposure to those 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 permit-required confined space
- Two-way communication
- Hands-on practice
- Verification of competence
- Site-specific information