Survive Inside: Employee Safety In Confined Spaces

This online safety training video explains the potential hazards of working in confined spaces. It also reviews OSHA regulations designed to protect workers from the dangers of entering, working within, and exiting confined spaces.

Viewers learn about the atmospheric, mechanical, and engulfment hazards that can be found within confined spaces. OSHA 1910.146 (b) describes a hazardous atmosphere as “An atmosphere that may expose employees to the risk of death, incapacitation, impairment of the ability to self-rescue, injury, or acute illness.” Atmospheric hazards include flammable, combustible, or explosive atmospheres; oxygen deficient atmospheres; and toxic atmospheres. OSHA requires confined spaces be regularly tested for oxygen content, flammable gases and vapors, and toxic air contaminants. This course also explains how confined space entry teams serve to protect workers.

Watch this training course to learn why it’s important to follow the proper procedures when working within confined spaces.

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Everyone who works in confined spaces

• Introduction
• What Is a Confined Space?
• Entry Permits
• Atmospheric Hazards in Confined Spaces
• Mechanical and Engulfment Hazards in Confined Spaces
• Confined Space Entry Teams
• Conclusion

• Making Safety Work: An Overview Of Workplace Safety and Employee Responsibilities
• Confined Space Entry
• Confined Space Entry: To The Point