Confined Space
OSHA defines a confined space as a space that is large enough and so configured that an employee can bodily enter and perform assigned work; has limited or restricted means for entry or exit (for example, tanks, vessels, silos, storage bins, hoppers, vaults, pits, manholes, tunnels, equipment housings, ductwork, pipelines, etc.), and is not designed for continuous employee occupancy.
OSHA uses the term "permit-required confined space" (permit space) to describe a confined space that has the 3 characteristics that define a confined space and one or more of the following characteristics. The space contains or has the potential to contain a hazardous atmosphere; contains material that has the potential to engulf an entrant; has walls that converge inward or floors that slope downward and taper into a smaller area which could trap or asphyxiate an entrant; or contains any other recognized safety or health hazard, such as unguarded machinery, exposed live wires, or the potential for heat stress or heat related injury.
Hazards in a confined space often include harmful dust or gases, asphyxiation, submersion in liquids or free-flowing granular solids (for example, grain bins), electrocution, or entrapment.
LUC Confined Space Entry Work Permit
OSHA defines a confined space as a space that is large enough and so configured that an employee can bodily enter and perform assigned work; has limited or restricted means for entry or exit (for example, tanks, vessels, silos, storage bins, hoppers, vaults, pits, manholes, tunnels, equipment housings, ductwork, pipelines, etc.), and is not designed for continuous employee occupancy.
OSHA uses the term "permit-required confined space" (permit space) to describe a confined space that has the 3 characteristics that define a confined space and one or more of the following characteristics. The space contains or has the potential to contain a hazardous atmosphere; contains material that has the potential to engulf an entrant; has walls that converge inward or floors that slope downward and taper into a smaller area which could trap or asphyxiate an entrant; or contains any other recognized safety or health hazard, such as unguarded machinery, exposed live wires, or the potential for heat stress or heat related injury.
Hazards in a confined space often include harmful dust or gases, asphyxiation, submersion in liquids or free-flowing granular solids (for example, grain bins), electrocution, or entrapment.
LUC Confined Space Entry Work Permit