Working In Medium Risk Confined Spaces – Water Industry Recognised

Course Description

This is a practical training course providing knowledge of confined spaces & their inherent dangers. The course provides underpinning knowledge to plan, enter, work & exit such areas, including via a vertical shaft. With assessments in safe access & exit of a confined space, use of equipment, tools & escape breathing apparatus

Who Will Benefit

Those involved in, or about to become involved in entering a confined space, including tanks, chambers, pits, pipes, sewers, flues, wells or other similar places, in which by virtue of its enclosed nature, there arises a reasonable foreseeable specified risk

Purpose

To provide practical training in a realistic environment, to work safely entering & exiting confined spaces, using equipment & tools safely & preparing & using escape breathing apparatus

Training Coverage

• Confined Spaces Regulation 1997
• Personal protection & hygiene requirements
• Risk assessing residual hazards
• Types of gaseous atmospheres, portable gas monitoring equipment & its use
• The use of harness tripod/man-riding winch, fall arrest & safety line
• The use of escape breathing apparatus & self evacuation procedures
• Safe entry working & exiting procedures at confined spaces
• Setting up equipment with regard to the safety of operators, other staff & the public
• Hands on experience using equipment effectively & safely
• Immediate procedures to adopt in the event of injury
• How to identify & set up a safe system of work
• Selection of the appropriate Personal Protective Equipment with regard to the P.P.E. Regulations 1992

Qualification

Certificates of Training Achievement & ID Cards from Energy & Utility Skills will be awarded to those trainees who successfully pass the theoretical & practical sessions with also mandatory registration onto the EU Skills Registration database

Duration

2 Day Course – 8.30am – 4.30pm both days with a 30 minute break for lunch

Location

At Whale Tankers Ltd, Solihull

Numbers

Maximum 8 – Minimum 4

Requirements

Delegates must provide their own PPE including safety footwear, waterproof clothing, hardhat & working gloves