On a daily basis around the nation, emergency responders must handle incidents in confined spaces. Not all of these agencies have technical teams at their immediate disposal or even in their first ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University’s Agricultural Safety and Health Program has released the 2023 Summary of U.S. Agricultural Confined Space-related Injuries and Fatalities ahead of National ...

OSHA is behind standards and policies created to protect confined space entrants from various hazards. Those standards make a significant difference. LOS ALAMITOS, CA ...

Mark McCabe recounts how rescuer and victim at a confined-space incident nearly were put in peril because of shortsightedness regarding the crew's four-gas meters. In July 2017, the Cohasset, MA, Fire ...

Four confined space deaths in four weeks have caused Britain's Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to remind all employers who may encounter confined spaces of the dangers involved. The deaths follow a ...

Last year saw a roughly 40 percent increase in the number of reported cases involving agricultural confined spaces, according to the 2022 Summary of U.S. Agricultural Confined Space-Related Injuries ...

This course is designed to address safety and medical assessment and treatment considerations associated with Confined Space and Trench Rescue Environments. Attendees will learn how to size-up the ...

Working in confined spaces can be extremely dangerous. Workers may be exposed to mechanical and atmospheric hazards. In certain situations, the temperature cannot be controlled and workers are exposed ...

The voluntary consensus standard, which was approved on July 27, 2009, with an effective date of November 2, 2009, establishes minimum safety requirements to follow while entering, exiting and working ...

Have You Ever Been Required to Work in a Confined Space? When we think of confined space, it is easy to only imagine them as being very small areas that are only present underground. Although ...

One day, a regular worker entered a confined space such as a tank or storage tank and never came out. A colleague who witnessed this scene entered the space to rescue them, resulting in an accident ...