Safety Info Posts

I am sure the thought has crossed everyone’s mind who has issued an entry permit for a HAZ ATM entry… “should the attendant be in breathing air as well?”.  Is there an exposure potential for the attendant to the HAZ ATM from within the PRCS?  Most attendants are stationed right outside the entry portal, add

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

Our behind the scenes debate continues and now a number of clients have joined in with their take on the matter. The fundamental part of our debate has come down to two (2) positions: does a fall inside or into a Confined Space make that CS a Permit-Required Confined Space? if you said yes to

Several years ago I wrote an article about how a space goes through its transitions to become a non-permit required confined space.  A space is not identified as a non-permit required confined space during its first evaluation; it becomes one after it has been “reclassified” using either (c)(7) or 1926.1203(g).  That article caused quite a

A company was fined $220,000 by the State Courts today under section 12(1) of the Workplace Safety and Health Act (“WSHA”) for failing to take adequate safety measures for its work in an underground storage tank.  On 25 July 2016, four workers were instructed by their supervisor to clean an underground storage tank, a permit-required confined space 3.2m