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Fact Sheet: OSHA Outreach Training

for General Industry


Permit-Required Confined Spaces

Note the following key points in this


Many workplaces contain spaces that are lesson:
considered to be "confined" because their
 If hazardous conditions are detected during
configurations hinder the activities of
entry in to a confined space, employees
employees who must enter into, work in, or exit
must immediately leave the space.
from them.
 The employer must evaluate the space to
A permit-required confined space has one or determine the cause of the hazardous
more of these characteristics: atmosphere and modify the program as
necessary.
 Contains or has the potential to contain a  A space classified by the employer as a
hazardous atmosphere; permit-required confined space may be
 Contains a material with the potential to reclassified as a non-permit confined space
engulf someone who enters the space; under the following procedures:
 Has an internal configuration that might
cause an entrant to be trapped or o If the permit space poses no actual or
asphyxiated by inwardly converging walls or potential atmospheric hazards and if
by a floor that slopes downward and tapers all hazards within the space are
to a smaller cross section; and/or eliminated without entry into the
 Contains any other recognized serious space, the permit space may be
safety or health hazards. reclassified as a non-permit confined
space for as long as the non-
Required equipment for permit-required atmospheric hazards remain
confined space entry include: eliminated.
o If it is necessary to enter the permit
space to eliminate hazards, such
entry must be performed in
accordance with OSHA requirements.
If testing and inspection during that
Retrieval Devices Lighting entry demonstrate that the hazards
within the permit space have been
eliminated, the permit space may be
reclassified as a nonpermit confined
space for as long as the hazards
remain eliminated.
Barriers Ladders Remember:
The employer must provide proper training for
all workers who are required to work in permit
spaces and keep a record for inspection by
employees and their authorized
Communication Ventilation
representatives.
Devices Equipment

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