Confined spaces
HSE Services
Confined Spaces cause many incidents and accidents; they must be risk assessed by professionals with the necessary knowledge and experience.
The following list is not an extent of the necessary, safe work systems; it’s only a basic of mandatory requirements for each individual confined space entry.
Plan
- Individually Risk Assessed by Professionals with adequate equipment.
- Creation of necessary Permits to Work before beginning the tasks.
- Emergency arrangements must be in place.
- Adequate emergency equipment must be readily available.
- Identify applicable Codes of Practice for the tasks.
- Implementation of the hierarchy of safety control measures
Do
- All involved individuals must be briefed regarding the Safe System of Work before the entrance.
- Safeguard all confined space entrances.
- Continuously Monitored by professional Tank Watch and periodically reviewed by professional Confined Space Expert.
- Keep a log of Acess and Egress.
- Apply the hierarchy of safety control measures.
- Report any near miss, incident, or accident.
We also provide Fully Qualified Tank Watchers to Monitor that Permit to Works, Safe Systems of Work procedures are correctly followed.
Check
- Tank Watch and Confined Space Expert must assess that the confined space is safe without any residual hazard before leaving.
- Identify the necessary remedial actions if there was a breach of safe systems of work during the task or any incident.
- Identify how to improve safe systems of work if possible.
Act
- Act upon and record the necessary remedial actions, possible improvements and communicate them.