When you have permit-required confined spaces at your facility, you are required to establish procedures for how a worker is rescued from the space in the event of an injury or accident. Basically, there are two options for rescue: use in-house personnel to rescue the worker by entering the confined space and use outside emergency personnel to rescue workers. (A third option, rescuing the workers in a confined space using in-house personnel who do not enter the space is can also be utilized. However, since, should they fail, another rescue option would need to be employed, it is really a subset of these two.) Points To Consider Utilizing an in-house rescue team for confined space rescue involves significant time, effort, and resources. For that reason, it is important to carefully consider whether or not you want to have an in-house rescue team (or even if, given circumstances and resource limitation, whether you are able to) or outside emergency services. Here are some things to consider when deciding what type of rescue team is appropriate: Outside rescue services:
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When you have permit-required confined spaces at your facility, you are required to establish procedures for how a worker is rescued from the space in the event of an injury or accident. Basically, there are two options for rescue: use in-house personnel to rescue the worker by entering the confined space and use outside emergency personnel to rescue workers. Learn more...
Rathi Niyogi is the CEO of CriticalTool, a national distributor of Confined Space Rescue Equipment and Confined Space Blowers. Additional information on the Basics of Confined Space can be found here http://www.criticaltool.com/confined-space-the-basics.html
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