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Confined Spaces

Related Technical Links:

• Construction: Confined Spaces

Recognition

Small Business Outreach Training Program Instructional Guide.

• OSHA Training Institute (1997). This document contains basic about occupational safety and health, with specific focus on the needs of small business. It contains the following sections regarding Confined Spaces, and also provides discussion/overheads and student handouts:
• Confined space hazards, overheads (1.91 MB PDF file), handouts (253 KB PDF file).
• Permit-required confined space standard, overheads (1.59 MB PDF file), handouts (260 KB PDF file).
• Criteria for a Recommended Standard: Working in Confined Spaces. NIOSH (1979, December), 1 page. Table of contents to this document. The document is available as PDF files.
• Preventing Occupational Fatalities in Confined Spaces. NIOSH Alert (1986, January), 4 pages.
• Confined Space Entry Policy and Procedures Manual. St. Olaf College, 18 pages.
• Entering and Working in Confined Spaces. Oklahoma State University (1995, July 31), 1 page. Table of Contents to this Confined Spaces Manual.
• Confined Space Entry. Oregon State University's Safety Handbook, 2 pages.
• Asphyxiation Hazard in Pits: Potential Confined Space Problem. OSHA Hazard Information Bulletin (1993, June 13), 1 page.
• Suffocation Hazards in Flat Storage Buildings and Tanks. OSHA Hazard Information Bulletin (1994, December 15), 1 page.
• Confined Space Hazards a Threat to Farmers. National Ag Safety Database (1992, May), 4 pages.
• Beware of Manure Pit Hazards. National Ag Safety Database (1993, May), 4 pages.
• Preventing Deaths of Farm Workers in Manure Pits. NIOSH Alert (1990, May), 4 pages.
• NIOSH Warns Farmers of Deadly Risk of Grain Suffocation. NIOSH Update (1993, April 28), 2 pages.
• NIOSH Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Project. The National Ag Safety Database provides a short (1 page) description of this project.
• Two Men Die in Well Cleaning Operation–Maryland (1993), 4 pages.
• Carbon Monoxide Kills Three Volunteer Firefighters Inside Well in Pennsylvania (1990), 4 pages.
• Three Sanitation Workers and One Policeman Die in an Underground Pumping Station in Kentucky (1985), 1 page.

Evaluation

• Confined Spaces Advisor 1.1. OSHA (1997, December). This is interactive expert help for the Permit-Required Confined Spaces Standard (29 CFR 1910.146). It will assist users to identify confined spaces and deal with permit-required confined spaces. The program is available in both online and downloadable versions.
• Online: Confined Spaces Advisor 1.1
• Downloadable: Confined Spaces Advisor 1.1
• Permit-required Confined Space Decision Flow Chart. OSHA Regulation 1910.146 App A (1993, June), 2 pages.
• Procedures for Atmospheric Testing. OSHA Regulation 1910.146 App B.
• Air Testing Equipment. Department of Energy, Occupational Safety and Health Technical Reference (OTR), (1996, April), 2 pages.
• Confined-Space Preentry Checklist. Department of Energy, Occupational Safety and Health Technical Reference (OTR), (1996, April), 1 page.

Control

• OSHA Standards
• 1910.146 App C, Examples of Permit-required Confined Space Programs
• 1910.146 App D, Confined Space Pre-Entry Check List
• 1910.146 App E, Sewer System Entry
• Part 1915, Subpart B, Confined and Enclosed Spaces and Other Dangerous Atmospheres in Shipyard Employment.
• Confined-Space Entry. Department of Energy, Occupational Safety and Health Technical Reference (OTR), (1996, April). Table of Contents to this chapter. Contains elements of the DOE confined spaces program.
• Confined Space Entry. Department of Energy, Health and Safety Plan Guidelines. Contains guidelines on establishing a site specific confined spaces program.
• Confined Space Entry Policy and Procedure. Sonoma State University, 6 pages. Example of a confined space entry program.
• Confined Space. National Institute for Environmental Health and Safety (1998, January 6), 9 pages. Example of a confined space entry program. Includes duties of individual jobs.
• Confined Space Management, Confined Space Rescue, Mark A. Brown, Rescue Net (1998), 3 pages. Provides an introduction to the topic of confined space rescues.
• OSHA Confined Space Entry Poster. National Ag Safety Database, 1 page. The poster is available as PDF files in 3 sizes.

Compliance

• Compliance information, including Standards, Directives and Interpretations, is provided on a separate page.

Training

• Small Business Outreach Training Program Instructional Guide. OSHA Training Institute (1997). This guide contains basic information about selected topics in occupational safety and health. It is designed to provide ideas and organizational assistance to instructors who wish to present these topics, which specifically focus on the needs of small business. One section discusses confined space hazards, and another section discusses OSHA's permit-required confined space standard.
• National Ag Safety Database provides references to several videos relating to confined space entry. These are available at minimal cost. The following links provide information about these videos.
• Confined Space Entry (1994, May), 1 page.
• Confined Space Entry (1994, May), 1 page.
• Confined Space Entry (1981), 1 page.
• Confined Space Entry Retraining (1995), 1 page.
• Confined Space Entry- The Final Reg (1994, May), 1 page.
• Confined Space Entry- The Final Reg (1993), 1 page.
• Confined Space Safety (1994, May), 1 page.
• Confined Space Training: A Program for Everyone. Module 1 - Confined Spaces, Deadly Spaces (1997, October), 1 page.
• Confined Space Training: A Program for Everyone. Module 2 - Survival By Permit (1997, October), 1 page.

Other

• Construction: Confined Space Technical Links Page.

Confined Space Entry. Oklahoma State University, 1 page. Links to a number of articles and information sheets relating to confined spaces.