This standard describes minimum practices and procedures to prevent worker exposure to dangerous safety and health hazards in a confined space. It also recognizes the dynamic character of confined spaces as they occur in construction. Thus, the standard and our enforcement focus on the employer’s whole program as conceived, documented and implemented as a primary safeguard for employees and on the capacity of that program to detect confined space hazards and to respond to them appropriately. The standard is separated into multiple standard numbers as opposed to paragraphs within one standard.