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Permit-Required Confined Spaces

Latest Update: June 7, 2023
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Training Information

The employer shall provide training on practices and procedures to protect employees working in permit required confined spaces.

Responsible Party

Who Must Complete Training?
Staff working in confined spaces. 

Deadlines

When Do I Need to Complete?
Upon orientation and as changes occur.

Method

How Do I Get Trained?
Permit-required confined space program (permit space program) means the employer's overall program for controlling, and, where appropriate, for protecting employees from, permit space hazards and for regulating employee entry into permit spaces.

Authority

The legal mandate requiring reporting
1910.146(g)
Training.
1910.146(g)(1)
The employer shall provide training so that all employees whose work is regulated by this section acquire the understanding, knowledge, and skills necessary for the safe performance of the duties assigned under this section.
1910.146(g)(2)
Training shall be provided to each affected employee:
1910.146(g)(2)(i)
Before the employee is first assigned duties under this section;
1910.146(g)(2)(ii)
Before there is a change in assigned duties;
1910.146(g)(2)(iii)
Whenever there is a change in permit space operations that presents a hazard about which an employee has not previously been trained;
1910.146(g)(2)(iv)
Whenever the employer has reason to believe either that there are deviations from the permit space entry procedures required by paragraph (d)(3) of this section or that there are inadequacies in the employee's knowledge or use of these procedures.
1910.146(g)(3)
The training shall establish employee proficiency in the duties required by this section and shall introduce new or revised procedures, as necessary, for compliance with this section.
1910.146(g)(4)
The employer shall certify that the training required by paragraphs (g)(1) through (g)(3) of this section has been accomplished. The certification shall contain each employee's name, the signatures or initials of the trainers, and the dates of training. The certification shall be available for inspection by employees and their authorized representatives.
DISCLAIMER
Although many of these requirements apply to individual medical professionals and other types of hospitals and health care facilities, the information is presented solely to support Critical Access Hospitals. The reporting requirements and legal mandates on this site are not an exhaustive list and Nevada Rural Hospital Partners, Inc. bears no responsibility or liability for any hospitals' or providers' failure to comply with Federal or State laws or regulations.