• Helps you comply with OSHA's confined spaces training requirements
• Covers the following risks:
  
  
  • Toxic environments
  • Engulfment hazards
  • Dangerous moving parts
  • Electrical hazards
  • Pressure dangers
• Provides an important training foundation for authorized entrants, attendants, entry supervisors, and rescue services and emergency personnel - anyone with the potential to encounter a permit space
• The training video's unique ""risk control"" approach draws employees into a compelling risk scenario, a dramatic enactment that helps improve attention and retention
• Available in English and Spanish
• Ready-to-use training program includes several components
• Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired

Program Components

• (1) 25-minute video
• (1) Closed-Captioned Video - Combines engaging video and editing technology with expertise from industry professionals at all levels.
• (1) Instructor’s Guide - Provides background information and training tips to make the most of each training session. Please note: It is the employer's responsibility to certify that employees have completed permit space training that corresponds to the job duties they are expected to perform. Training certification must include employee's name, signature or initials of trainer, and date(s) of training.
• (11) Employee Handbooks - Provides a portable reference to be used during and after training. Includes perforated employee receipt and a quiz to check employees' understanding of the material.
• (1) Trainer Tools CD-ROM (not sold separately) - Offers info and tools to make your job easier and help improve compliance. Materials can be used as-is, customized, or imported into PowerPoint® presentations. Includes rescue services evaluation guide; quick-access employee info card; confined space entry permit examples and pre-entry checklist (for use as classroom visual aids); quizzes; answer keys; posters; clip art; training log; and content for audiovisual presentations or handouts. The minimum computer system requirements for the Trainer Tools CD-ROM are Office 2000, with Word, and Internet Explorer version 5.5.
• (1) Awareness Poster - Colorful poster highlights the topic and provides visible reminders long after training is complete.
• (1) Wallet Card Sheet - Provides quick, simple proof that training has been completed. Includes one wallet card sheet, perforated to provide 10 cards.

DVD Main Menu

• Play Program - Plays entire main program.
• Chapter Selections - Allows easy access to specific subtopics for more focused training.
  • Introduction - Risk scenario set-up: two workers are about to enter a permit- required confined space (PRCS); Briefly lists different kinds of PRCSs, how dangerous PRCSs can be, and applicable OSHA regulations
  • Permit-Required Confined Spaces - Lists the characteristics of a PRCS; Employer requirements for identifying PRCSs
  • Permit-Space Hazards - Revisits the risk scenario: one of the workers drops a flashlight into the PRCS and enters the PRCS to retrieve it; Discusses the hazards of PRCSs: hazardous atmospheres, engulfment, mechanical, electrical and pressure hazards; Covers the required hazardous atmosphere tests: oxygen levels, combustible gases, vapors or dusts, and toxic gases or vapors; Provides information on controlling engulfment, mechanical, electrical and pressure dangers
  • Permit-Required Program - Revisits the risk scenario: the second worker discovers that his co-worker has entered the PRCS and has passed out; Discusses the requirements of a Permit-Required Program
  • Entry Team - Discusses and illustrates the roles and responsibilities of each member of a PRCS team: the authorized entrant, the attendant and the entry supervisor
  • Entry Permit - Goes over all the information that is contained in the entry permit
  • Safe Entry of a PRCS - Goes over the steps of a typical pre-entry sequence: testing for oxygen levels, combustibles and toxic atmospheres, lockout/tagout, PPE, signing the entry permit, the definition of "entry," barriers;  Goes over the steps of a typical entry sequence: periodic monitoring, communication between entrant and attendant, warning signs, use of signals, canceling the permit and securing the space when work is complete; Discusses the requirements when non-employee contractors are used for PRCS entries and alternate entry procedures
  • Planning for Rescue - Emphasizes that unqualified employees should not attempt to rescue co-workers involved in a PRCS incident but call for trained rescuers instead (more than half of all PRCS fatalities involve untrained "rescuers");  Discusses the specific training requirements of a rescue team, working with outside rescue teams, the need for quarterly training and on-site exercises, optimal ways for employers to work with local fire rescue personnel, emergency contact information on the entry permit; Revisits the risk scenario: the second worker starts to climb into the PRCS, then decides to call for a rescue team instead
  • Conclusion - Reiterates the dangers of PRCS and the importance of following the rules and regulations; Revisits the risk scenario: the first worker has been rescued from the PRCS by a trained rescue team
• Review – Provides a quick way to refresh memory on key points of the program to better aid retention.
• Commentary – Offers additional interviews by industry professionals.
• Quiz – 10 interactive questions; offers correct/incorrect remediation to reinforce effectiveness of training.
• Message for Management – Gives introduction to topic for trainer/management.
• Preview – Offers sneak peeks at training programs for related topics.