Corsafety.ca shall develop a hazardous confined space entry plan in writing and procedures where a worker will be required or permitted to enter a hazardous confined space to ensure the health and safety of workers who enter or work in the hazardous confined spaces. The plan and procedures must include:
Written procedures for recognizing and identification of hazards that may be present in the hazardous confined space and may put the health or safety of workers at risk and the risks associated with working in the confined space.
- Written procedures specifying the means to eliminate or minimize all hazards likely to prevail must be developed based on the hazard assessment.
- Written safe work procedures to enter, work in and exit from the hazardous confined space safely.
- Methods for isolating and lockout, including blanking, disconnecting, interrupting and locking out pipes, lines and all sources of energy from a confined space.
- Prior to performing work in a confined space all equipment that is required to safely perform confined space work, including personal protective equipment and rescue equipment, is available and inspected to ensure it is in good working order. Inspections shall be written and retained.
- An emergency response plan and rescue procedures to be implemented in the event of an accident or other emergency in a confined space, including the number and duties of personnel and the availability, location and proper use of rescue equipment including lifelines, harnesses and lifting equipment.
- Entry permits.
- Ventilating, cleaning, purging or inerting the hazardous confined space.
- Standby persons.
- Coordination of work activities.
- Atmospheric tests, measurements and monitoring necessary to monitor any oxygen deficiency or enrichment or the presence and hazardous concentration of flammable or explosive substances. The results of the tests are recorded on the entry permit.
- Availability, location and proper use of personal protective equipment.
- Means to maintain effective communication with a worker who has entered the hazardous confined space with a standby person or other personnel outside the space.
- Availability, location and proper use of any other equipment that a worker may need to work safely in the hazardous confined spaces.
- That workers are trained in and who will implement a hazardous confined space entry plan, including a worker who is required or permitted to enter, a worker who tends to a worker in the space, and a worker who may be required or permitted to implement the rescue procedures.
- An assignment of responsibilities.
- A list of each confined space or group of similar spaces and a hazard assessment of those spaces.
- How to take all reasonably practicable steps to prevent any unauthorized entry into the confined space.
- Written procedures specifying the means to eliminate or minimize all hazards likely to prevail must be developed based on the hazard assessment.