Program must address that before a worker is required or permitted to enter a confined space a competent person shall prepare a report in writing that sets out the results of risks to safety or health a worker is likely to be exposed to while in the confined space.
The report shall include the assessment, tests and determinations, recommended special precautions and procedures to reduce the risk to a worker who is to be followed by a worker entering into, exiting from or occupying the confined space and recommended personal protective equipment to be used by a worker entering the confined space.
- The hazard assessment must be conducted for each:
Condition which may exist prior to entry due to the confined space's design, location or use, or, which may develop during work activity inside the space.
- Potential for oxygen enrichment and deficiency, flammable gas, vapour or mist, combustible dust, other hazardous atmospheres, harmful substances requiring lockout and isolation, engulfment and entrapment, and other hazardous conditions.
- Confined space, confined space types at the work site or each group of confined spaces, which share similar characteristics
- Work activity, or group of work activities which present similar hazards, to be performed inside a confined space.
- Types of hazards that are or may be present at each confined space.
- Before a worker may enter or work in a confined space, Corsafety.ca must identify and assess:
- And take measures to reduce, control or eliminate the risks to safety or health associated with the confined space.
- Alternative means to perform the work in a confined space that will not require the worker to enter the confined space and
- Alterations to the physical characteristics of the confined spaces that may be necessary to ensure safe entrance to and exit from all accessible parts of each confined space.
- graphic, 8.10.27.1
