Isolating a Permit-Required Confined Space is a requirement regardless of your entry option used

For the life of me (pun intended) I can not find this fool who runs around and tells all these safety lies about OSHA compliance.  I used to think it had to be Casper The Friendly Ghosts’ brother – but now I am at a loss in combating some of the most fundamental safety principles.  But there is hope, my beloved Cincinnati OSHA office team (One of the 2 OSHA Technical Offices in the country) stepped up and issued citations last month to an employer who was not isolating their PRCSs properly and the office even made note that when reclassifying a PRCS – PROPER ISOLATION of the space is required.  So let’s look at this critical aspect of preparing a PRCS for entry and what OSHA actually said in their most recent citations…

Are we able to see the theme from these four (4) citations?

(emphasis by me)

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