The topic of confined spaces never goes away. The fact that people continue to die from entering confined spaces shows the need for ongoing reminders on how to identify and conduct entries into those ...

Confined spaces may hold serious physical and atmospheric hazards for the people working in them. To address these potential dangers, regulations have been put in place to make sure workers can get in ...

In some instances where electricians will need to work in certain confined spaces like crawlspaces, they may need a permit. A confined space permit is a document that states the safety procedures ...

In this episode, editor Sydny Shepard defines a confined space, gives examples of deadly incidents and does a deep dive into what OSHA is doing today to curb fatalities and injuries. According to the ...

On a daily basis around the nation, emergency responders must handle incidents in confined spaces. Not all of these agencies have technical teams at their immediate disposal or even in their first ...

Over 1 ½ million workers enter confined spaces on an annual basis. Serious injury or death in a confined space can be the result of asphyxiation, engulfment, electric shock, falls, and heat stress.

Benjamin Franklin famously once said, “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail” but nowhere is this statement clearer—or riskier—than when it comes to worker safety. The more employers can ...

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Too often in the fire service, specialty teams are thought of independently. However, there arguably is no stronger connection between two disciplines than there is between confined space rescue and ...