Confined SpacesChapter 296-809, WAC |
Effective Date: 05/01/04 |
Permit-required Confined Space Program
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Your Responsibility:
To develop your permit-required confined
space program and practices
IMPORTANT:
This section applies if employees will
enter a permit-required confined space.
You must
| Develop a written permit-required confined space program |
WAC 296-809-30002 |
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Meet these additional requirements if your employees enter another employer’s confined space |
WAC 296-809-30004 |
WAC
296-809-30002
Develop a written permit-required confined
space program
IMPORTANT:
Identify and evaluate the hazards of permit-required confined spaces and the work performed, to assist you in developing your entry program.
You must
• Develop a written program, before employees enter, that describes the means, procedures, and practices you use for the safe entry of permit-required confined spaces as required by this chapter. Include the following when applicable to your confined space entry program:
- Documentation of permit entry procedures
- Documentation used for alternate entry procedures
- How to reclassify permit-required confined spaces to non-permit spaces
- Designation of employee roles, such as entrants, attendants, entry supervisors, rescuers, or those who test or monitor the atmosphere in a permit-required space
- Identification of designated employee duties
- Training employees on their designated roles
- How to identify and evaluate hazards
- Use and maintenance of equipment
- How to prevent unauthorized entry
- How to coordinate entry with another employer
- How to rescue entrants
Note:
For alternate entry, your written program only needs to meet the requirements of WAC 296-809-400, Employee Training, and WAC 296-809-600, Alternate Entry Procedures, of this chapter.
You must
• Consult with affected employees and their authorized representatives when developing and implementing all aspects of your permit-required confined space program
• Make the written program available to employees and their authorized representatives
• Update your written program as necessary.
Link:
You can find a sample permit-required confined space entry program in the Resources section of this chapter, or by visiting the Labor & Industries website at http://www.lni.wa.gov/wisha/publications/App.
WAC
296-809-30004
Meet these additional requirements if
your employees enter another employer’s confined space
You must
• Obtain any available information about permit-required confined space hazards and entry operations from the host employer
• Coordinate entry operations with any other employers whose employees will be working in or near the permit-required confined space
• Inform the host employer, either through a debriefing or during entry operations, about:
- The entry program you will follow
and
- Any hazards you confronted or created in the space during entry operations.
Helpful Tool:
Example Confined Spaces Entry Program
You can find examples of permit space programs in the Resources section of this rule.
