D2000 Safety Industrial Safety Newsletter
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| Confined Space Safety Best Practice: What to Include in the Inventory
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| One of the challenges in administering a confined space safety program is deciding which spaces to include in your inventory. The simple answer is to just include those spaces that meet the definition of a permit space*, but is this a confined space safety best practice? My sense is that it may not be. In fact, I believe that when you’re deciding which spaces to place under the confined space program, you should consider putting aside OSHA’s legal definition of a permit space and instead use a broader measuring stick. (For more information on this and other confined space safety best practices, consider attending our July 19-20 Confined Space Train the Trainer class being held in Medford, Oregon). Why should we put aside the OSHA rules? The simple answer is the rules don’t take us as far as we’d like to go if we are truly going to follow confined space safety best practices and protect our employees. In other words, instead of relying on a compliance-based safety system (following rules) we should use a risk-based safety system (identifying and managing/eliminating hazards).
Each confined space entry has unique hazards, each of which require a thorough risk assessment.
To understand this approach, let’s examine some of the deficiencies in the current permit space rules.
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Confined Space Train the Trainer |
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Duration: 16 hours. Prerequisites: Basic understanding of employer’s lockout/tagout, fall protection, confined space, and similar safety procedures.
- Confined Space Basics
- Training Entrants and Attendants.
- Training Entry Supervisors.
- Regulations, Compliance Directive,
- Letters of Interpretation.
- Adult Learning Principals
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| Fall Protection Competent Person |
| Duration: 16 hours. Prerequisites: Basic safety knowledge.
- Physics of a Fall
- Types of Fall Protection
- Hierarchy of Controls
- Equipment Selection and Maintenance
- Rescue
- Fall Protection for Construction
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| | Excavation Safety Competent Person Duration: 16 hours depending on class experience and the nature of the student’s excavation operations..
Prerequisites: None - Accidents and Statistics
- Types of Cave-ins
- Soil Mechanics and Protective Systems
- Water and Atmosphere Hazards.
- Safety Planning
- Emergency Preparedness
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Eugene, OR September 13-14, 2016
Confined Space Rescue Team Leader
Tucson, AZ (Titan Missile Museum) October 24-28 2016
Kennewick, WA Nov. 14-18, 2016 Kennewick, WA Nov. 14-16, 2016
Kennewick, WA October 25-26, 2016
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Confined Space Training Fall Protection Excavation Safety Rope Access Training Forklift Safety
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Confined Space Rescue Tower Rescue Trench Rescue Advanced Rescue Training
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