Confined Space Entry & Safety Training Course

Course Overview

Learning Objectives

• Analyze the hazards of confined spaces and the causes of confined space fatalities, including rescuer deaths, drawing lessons from major incidents on Day 1.
• Apply recognized international regulations and industry good practice for confined space entry.
• Identify, classify, register, and sign confined spaces in the workplace.
• Recognize atmospheric hazards, including oxygen deficiency and enrichment, flammable and toxic atmospheres, and physical hazards, including engulfment, entrapment, heat, mechanical, and electrical hazards.
• Apply the hierarchy of controls to avoid entry where possible and conduct confined space risk assessments.
• Plan and authorize entry using confined space entry permits integrated with permit-to-work systems.
• Define the roles, responsibilities, and competence of entrants, attendants, entry supervisors, gas testers, and rescue teams.
• Apply isolation of process, mechanical, and electrical energy, including blinding, double block and bleed, and lockout and tagout.
• Apply cleaning, purging, and ventilation methods and manage the special risks of inert atmosphere entry.
• Conduct atmospheric testing in the correct sequence, verify gas detectors through calibration and bump testing, and apply continuous monitoring.
• Select respiratory protection, personal protective equipment, communication, lighting, and electrical equipment and control hot work inside confined spaces.
• Develop confined space rescue plans, including non-entry retrieval, and manage emergency response, contractor control, and program audits by the end of Day 5.

Who Should Attend

Learning Outcomes

• By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
• Explain why confined spaces are so dangerous and how fatalities occur.
• Apply relevant regulations and good practice to confined space work.
• Identify and register confined spaces correctly.
• Recognize atmospheric and physical hazards before entry.
• Avoid unnecessary entry and assess risks when entry is required.
• Prepare, issue, and control confined space entry permits.
• Perform their role in confined space entry competently.
• Isolate confined spaces safely from all energy sources.
• Clean, purge, and ventilate confined spaces effectively.
• Test and monitor atmospheres correctly and verify gas detectors.
• Select appropriate respiratory protection and equipment for entry.
• Plan and execute safe rescue without endangering rescuers.

Course Outline