Safety and Health in Confined Spaces goes beyond all other resources currently available. International in scope, the 15 chapters and 10 appendices cover every facet of this important subject. A significant addition to the literature, this book provides a confined space focus to other health and safety concepts. Confined spaces differ from other workspaces because their boundary surfaces amplify the consequences of hazardous conditions. The relationship between the individual, the boundary surface, and the hazardous condition is the critical factor in the onset, outcome, and severity of accidents in these workspaces. The author uses information about causative and other factors from analysis of fatal accidents to develop a hazard assessment and hazard management system. He provides a detailed, disciplined protocol, covering 36 hazardous conditions, that addresses all segments of work--the undisturbed space, entry preparation, work activity, and emergency preparedness and response--and illustrates how to use it. Safety and Health in Confined Spaces gives you the tools you need for preventing and responding to accidents.

This book provides plant managers, supervisors, safety professionals, and industrial hygienists with recommended procedures and guidance for safe entry into confined spaces. It reviews selected case histories of confined space accidents, including multiple fatalities, and discusses how a confined space entry program could have prevented them. It outlines the requirements of the OSHA permit-entry confined space standard and provides detailed explanations of requirements for lockout/tagout, air sampling, ventilation, emergency planning, and employee training. The book is filled with more than 100 line drawings and more than 150 photographs.

Written by veteran rescuer Chase Sargent, this book is a comprehensive, single-source guide to such subject areas as hazardous atmospheres, detection equipment, breathing apparatus, ventilation, retrieval systems, backup teams, and operational procedures. Effective methods of training and regulations governing operations in confined spaces also are discussed at length.

EVERY SECOND COUNTS WHEN YOU'RE RESPONDING TO AN EMERGENCYINVOLVINGCONFINED SPACE-HERE'S THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO PERFORMINGFLAWLESS RESCUES! Confined Space Entry and Emergency Response utilizes a realistic,scenario-based approach to teach you-and your staff-the right wayto respond to an incident involving a confined space. The authorsprovide intensive, step-by-step guidance through the challengingmaze of training regulations, equipment needs, and procedures tokeep your response team finely tuned and ready to go under anyconditions. You'll find expert, detailed coverage of complex-and oftenconfusing-topics such as: * The basic components of rescue * OSHA's regulations for confined space entry and rescue * Confined space entry permitting * Assessing confined space hazards * Hazardous atmospheres and how to protect entrants from them * Air monitoring in confined spaces * Selection and use of personal protective equipment * The use of ropes and rigging The CD-ROM includes the Instructor's Guide along with lesson plansand useful practice tools such as worksheets, exercise handouts,performance checklists, diagrams and equipment lists for fieldexercises, instructions for building field training simulators, andguidelines for identifying rescue trainers and evaluating theircompetency as well as that of outside rescue teams. Everything you need to effectively train those working in aconfined space can truly be found within these pages and on theCD-ROM.

When respected exĆanadian Forces commander Bern Fortin cuts short his military career to take a job as the coroner for a small mountain town in the heart of BC, heś hoping to leave the past behind. Bernś looking forward to a quiet life, but the memories of what he witnessed during his stints in Afghanistan and other war-torn countries haunt him still. When the body of one of the workers is found floating in the huge bottle-washing tank at the local brewery, Bern is called in for a routine investigation. What first appears to be a tragic accident takes a menacing turn when the body of the workerś girlfriend is discovered in a nearby field. Bern needs the help of brewery safety investigator Evie Chapelle, who, burdened by tragedies she might have prevented, is more determined than ever to keep her workers, and their tight-knit community, safe. Soon, Bern and Evie find themselves risking their jobsánd their livest́o uncover a killer hiding in a place where it is awfully hard to keep a secret.

Safety and Health in Confined Spaces goes beyond all other resources currently available. International in scope, the 15 chapters and 10 appendices cover every facet of this important subject. A significant addition to the literature, this book provides a confined space focus to other health and safety concepts. Confined spaces differ from other workspaces because their boundary surfaces amplify the consequences of hazardous conditions. The relationship between the individual, the boundary surface, and the hazardous condition is the critical factor in the onset, outcome, and severity of accidents in these workspaces. The author uses information about causative and other factors from analysis of fatal accidents to develop a hazard assessment and hazard management system. He provides a detailed, disciplined protocol, covering 36 hazardous conditions, that addresses all segments of work--the undisturbed space, entry preparation, work activity, and emergency preparedness and response--and illustrates how to use it. Safety and Health in Confined Spaces gives you the tools you need for preventing and responding to accidents.

Includes: overview of confined-space hazards; epidemiology of confined space-related fatalities; & prevention: elements of a confined-space program. Majority of report consists of summary data & investigative reports of fatal incidents involving workers who entered confined spaces. Involves: explosives, inert gases, oxygen deficient air, solvents, toxic gases, engulfment, falls, electrocution, & drowning. A resource & case study manual for safety & public health professionals, safety & health instructors, research & public safety personnel.

Confined spaces Agskills provides a basic guide to some of the skills and practices of working in confined spaces. The book contains step-by-step instructions, diagrams, and full-colour pictures. Some of the topics included are: • Identifying hazards • Atmospheric testing and monitoring • Signs and barricades • Fire control • Rescue equipment • Legal requirements