One of the biggest mistakes I see in my auditing and the biggest frustration I have when facilities state they treat all of their confined spaces as PRCS is that most have not recognized the fact that a roll-off trash compactor and/or large palletizers are actually Permit-Required Confined Spaces. For example, we have a large palletizer as shown below, ask yourself… is inside this machine a “Confined Space” and does this Confined Space contain a hazard which would make it a “Permit-Required Confined Space”? Let’s discuss…
