Permit Required Confined Space Programs
Permit required confined spaces are more common than many businesses realize. Do all confined spaces need a written permit program? Are rescue personnel required to be present? Can a permit required confined space be made safer and reclassified for easier entry? Is your current program compliant with both OSHA regulations and ANSI/ASSE Z117.1-2009 Safety Requirements for Confined Spaces? Allied works with you and for you to address all of these questions.
Confined Space Assessment
Allied safety professionals conduct on site assessments of enclosed spaces to:
- Identify and classify confined spaces at facility.
- Provide Confined Space report:
- Classification of observed spaces.
- Recommendations for compliant posting.
- Recommendations for reclassification (if applicable).
Audit – Permit Required Confined Space Program
Allied safety professionals meet with your management, supervisory and general staff to:
- Review the effectiveness of your current program and potential equipment in use.
- Verify the continued classification of the confined space(s).
- Verify that current procedures meet regulatory and industry guidelines.
- Provide a report:
- Identifying any regulatory or industry standard non-compliance.
- Provide recommendations to eliminate non-compliances.
- Provide recommendations for updating the written program or reclassifying the confined spaces.
Custom – Permit Required Confined Space Program
(Facility or specific client identified space)
Allied safety professionals:
- Conduct on-site assessment of confined and permit required confined space(s).
- Identify the specific work to be performed in confined/permit required confined space(s) and review your Job Hazard Analysis for the work.
- Identify potential means of reclassifying permit required confined spaces to allow non-permit entrance.
- Provide a comprehensive written permit required confined space program which:
- Is compliant with applicable regulations and industry standards.
- Identifies the specific permit required confined spaces.
- Provides specific permit entry procedures, requirements and recommended equipment for each location.
- Provides procedures for reclassifying a specific permit required confined space for standard entry.
- Provides recommended permit entry form.
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