Overview:

The Confined Spaces (Medium Risk) course provides candidates with the knowledge and skills to work safely within medium risk confined spaces.

Benefits:

The Confined Spaces (Medium Risk) course would benefit those who work in medium risk confined spaces.

Medium risk confined spaces exist when there are access issues, a realistic expectation of encountering a specified risk, the possible introduction of a specified risk during the work activity and that escape breathing apparatus must be taken into the confined space.

Course details:

Course details of the Confined Spaces (Medium Risk) course:

• The Confined Spaces Regulations 1997 & Approved Code of Practice.
• Identification of risks and their control
• Workplace safety
• Weil's Disease and sewage decontamination
• Hazardous atmospheres and gas monitoring
• The risk assessment process
• Operation of safe systems of work
• Use of permit to work control measures
• Personal Protective Equipment
• Selection of suitable equipment, pre-use inspection and safe operation (IP rated, intrinsically safe and ATEX approved).
• Fall arrest systems
• Emergency procedures
• Theoretical and practical training on escape breathing apparatus

Usual duration: Two days

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