By the Numbers: Confined Space Injuries and Deaths
Permit required confined spaces have long been – and still are - the leading cause of multiple fatalities in the workplace.
Permit required confined spaces have long been – and still are - the leading cause of multiple fatalities in the workplace.
Types of Safety Lenses
Use this Decision Tree to help you determine if a confined space is a permit-required confined space or a non-permit confined space.
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Working in a confined space is one of the most dangerous of all workplace hazards. In fact, it’s been calculated that working in a confined space is 150 times more dangerous than doing the same job outside of the space. While this Workplan is geared toward compliance remember, compliance is often only the minimum set of requirements for safety.
A Permit-Required Confined Space may be reclassified as a non-permit confined space under certain conditions. Use this form to document reclassification.
High risk Jobs for eye and face injury and Recommended protective eyewear.
Multiple-fatality confined space incidents are far too common as untrained and unprotected would-be rescuers attempt to save their co-workers and others who have fallen victim to the dangers of confined spaces.
One of the core elements that a confined spaces entry program must include is a safe entry procedure. And one of the things required for entry into a confined space is an entry permit.

Do you know how many workplace eye injuries could be prevented if eye protection had been worn? Read on to find out.
Seven Confined Space Entry Do's and Don'ts
On November 9, 2018 OSHA published a Final Rule amending the requirements for crane and derrick operator training, certification, and employer evaluation (29 CFR 1926 Subpart CC). The evaluation and documentation requirements become effective on February 7, 2019. Here’s what you need to know.
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