Goals
- Identify the types of confined spaces
- Analyze the risks associated with confined spaces
- Understanding the role of supervisors and responders
- Prepare for the intervention and intervene safely
- Responding in case of an emergency
Program
- Presentation of confined spaces: types, access characteristics, related problems
- Risks in confined spaces: fire, ATEX, falls from height and on the same level, biological risk, chemical risk, anoxia, hypoxia.
- Actors in confined spaces and their roles
- Confined space prevention measures and emergency measures
- Procedures and their traceability (work permits, entry authorizations, consignments of all fluids)
- Communication markings and protocol
- Principles of ventilation and sanitation
- Atmospheric control: use of detectors
- Responding in case of accident or incident
- Conducting practical exercises on client sites
- Note:
- Please bring your own PPE (work clothes, helmet and safety shoes)
- This course does not include practical exercises involving descent with a fall arrest harness or intervention with SCBA (see additional courses on this equipment).
Evaluation and validation methods
A final questionnaire (multiple-choice type) will be given to trainees at the end of the training. Upon successful completion of this questionnaire, they will receive an individual certificate of completion.
Target audience
future stakeholders and capacity monitors, prevention actors, team leaders, site managers
Prerequisites
to be physically capable of entering the capacity (occupational medicine)