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Workshop:
Confined Space Entry
September 4, 2008
Sandy Hook Fire Department, Newtown, CT
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Registration 8:30 AM
This seminar is open to CIRMA members only
SUMMARY
This course prepares participants for proper confined space
entry. It teaches the associated responsibilities as well as
procedures to be followed by authorized entrants, attendants,
and entry supervisors.
| OSHA Compliance Series
Confined Space Entry is one of many informative
workshops in CIRMA’s OSHA Compliance series. This
workshop is free to CIRMA members.
For more information about CIRMA workshops, please
email CIRMA at cirmaworkshop@ccm-ct.org.
"About 65 occupational fatalities per year in the
United States are caused by unsafe entry into a
confined space. Most of these deaths (over 80%)
are considered preventable."
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Many workplaces contain spaces that OSHA considers "confined"
because their dimensions hinder movement of employees who
must enter and work in them. Those who enter confined spaces
risk entrapment and suffocation, or, in some cases, exposure to
toxic gases, explosions, or moving machinery. If an accident
occurs, the responding fire, EMT, or police personnel face the
same dangers.Public entities are required to provide training so that their
employees who work in a confined space have the knowledge
and skills they need to safely perform their jobs.
You will learn:
- The difference between "non-permit required" and
"permit-required" confined spaces, as defined by OSHA.
- Entry hazards, including information on mode, signs and
symptoms, and consequences of exposure.
- Equipment used for confined space entry, including PPE,
ventilation devices, and atmospheric testing devices.
- Entry procedures for both types of spaces, including duties
for authorized entrants, attendants, and entry supervisors.
- Proper use of equipment, and conditions and procedures to
be used during emergencies by authorized entrants.
- How attendants should monitor conditions of the space,
what conditions require evacuation, rescue services, and
how to perform non-entry rescues.
- Testing and monitoring requirements, acceptable conditions
for entry, proper permitting and entry procedures to be
followed by entry supervisors.
This workshop will teach you how to identify a confined space,
and to distinguish between those that are "permit-required"
and "non-permit required." It teaches the proper labeling for
confined spaces; how to complete a confined space entry and a
hot-work permit.
AUDIENCE
- Risk Managers and Safety Directors
- Police Officers, Firefighters, and EMTs
- Public Works Supervisors and Employees
- Maintenance and Custodial Personnel
SPEAKERS
Catherine Zinsser,
Occupational Safety Training Specialist, CONN-OSHA
Mrs. Zinsser has been with Connecticut OSHA for three
years. She has a Bachelors of Science in Industrial Hygiene
from Quinnipiac University. Mrs. Zinsser has been in the
safety and environmental consulting field for several years
and as a CONN-OSHA Training Specialist, Mrs. Zinsser has
responsibility for CONN-OSHA training activities.
WHERE
SANDY HOOK FIRE DEPARTMENT
18 Riverside Drive
Sandy Hook, CT 06482
COST per attendee
This seminar is open to CIRMA members only and is free of charge.
DIRECTIONS
FROM DANBURY
Take I-84 East to Exit 10. Turn right on to Church Hill Road/Route
816. Follow for approximately ˝ mile. Continue straight through first
intersection, and road becomes Riverside Road. Fire Station is down
the street on the right.
FROM WATERBURY
Take I-84 West to Exit 10. Turn left at the end of the ramp onto
Church Hill Road/Route 816. Continue straight through first intersection,
and road becomes Riverside Road. Fire Station is down the
street on the right.
FROM BRIDGEPORT
Take Route 25 North. At then end of the highway portion, continue
on Route 25 North for approximately 10 miles, through Monroe into
Newtown center, then turn right at the flagpole onto Route 6/Church
Hill Road. Go approximately 1.5 miles (you will pass under I-84
overpass along the way) to intersection of Route 6 and Route 34.
Continue straight and road becomes Riverside Road. Fire Station is
down the street on the right.
FROM NEW HAVEN
Take Route 34 through downtown Derby, and follow Route
34/Roosevelt Drive along Housatonic River through Seymour and
Oxford. Follow Route 34 across Stevenson Dam into Monroe. Go
approximately 7 more miles from Monroe into Newtown (you will
pass under I-84 overpass along the way), and turn right onto
Riverside Road. Fire Station is down the street on the right.
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