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Confined Space Training
Confined spaces expose individuals to a variety of potential dangers, some of which may pose a risk of injury and, in certain situations, even the possibility of fatal outcomes. As a result, specialised confined space training becomes imperative to provide those engaged in such work with the essential skills and competencies needed to assess risks, manage hazards, and execute their tasks safely.
Our Accreditations
Our confined space training courses cover all aspects of working in confined spaces, inclusive of providing a complete range of PPE equipment to ensure the safe execution of tasks by your trained personnel.
Eurosafe has a mobile training unit, enabling the delivery of the majority of confined space courses at your location.
Not sure if you or your personnel require confined space training? Book our consultancy & audit services to assess your site and identify training and PPE requirements.
Confined Space Permit Writers (CSPW)
This course is for managers, supervisors, or others who will have responsibilities for reviewing and issuing permits for confined space entries.
Confined Space Management Awareness (CSMA)
This course is designed to enable those attending to be aware and understand the legal requirements for managing confined space work in the UK.
Confined Space Entry: Low Risk (CSC01)
This course is about entering and working in low risk environments with adequate natural or mechanical ventilation.
Confined Space Entry: Medium Risk & Entry Controller (CSC09)
This course is about working in confined space environments where there is a reasonably foreseeable chance that a specified risk may be present.
Confined Space Entry: Medium Risk – Refresher (CSC09R)
This course is about refreshing and reassessing the previously attained knowledge of working in confined space environments where there is a medium risk that a specified hazard may be present.
Confined Space Entry: High Risk (CSC03)
This course is about working in confined space environments that have non-standard entries and which, in consequence, makes rescue difficult.
Confined Space Entry: High Risk – Refresher (CSC03R)
This course is about refreshing and reassessing the previously attained knowledge of working in confined space environments which have non-standard entries and which, in consequence, makes rescue difficult.
Working as a Member of a Confined Space Rescue and Recovery Team (CSCRT08)
The aim of the course is to educate delegates in realistic work situations where rescue and recovery of personnel is required.
Workplace Rescue & Recovery (WRRT02)
This course is for personnel involved in the extraction of a casualty from a non-atmospheric related incident from above, below or on ground level; or who form part of the site rescue team.
Confined Space Direct Emergency Rescue & Recovery of Casualties (CSC07)
This course is for anyone who directs the activities of a team for rescue or recovery in confined spaces.
Basic Casualty Extraction (BCE01)
This course provides essential training for employees in workplaces on how to safely and effectively extract casualties in the event of an emergency.
Confined Spaces: Breathing Apparatus User Training (BAU01)
This course is aimed at anyone working in environments where they may be in the presence of a harmful or oxygen deficient atmosphere that would require you to wear full respiratory protection.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Confined Space Regulations 1997 state: A ‘confined space’ means any place, including any chamber, tank, vat, silo, pit, trench, pipe, sewer, flue, well or other similar space in which, by virtue of its enclosed nature, there arises a reasonably foreseeable specified risk.
Not sure if you have confined spaces on your premises? Book our confined space consultancy & audit services to assess your site and identify confined space training and PPE requirements.
Every situation is different and therefore requires a specific approach. Risks vary per confined space. Some of the most common risks are:
Risk of serious injury to any person arising from fire or explosion
Loss of consciousness to any person arising from:
Increase in body temperature or
loss of consciousness or asphyxiation arising from gas and fumes or vapour, or a lack of oxygen.
Drowning of any person from an increased level of the liquid
Asphyxiation of any person from a free-flowing solid or inability to reach respirtable atmosphere
These specified risks may not be present during your initial risk assessment but you may wish to consider: Will the work to be done in the space introduce one or more of these risks? If your answer is YES then you will have a confined space.
Working in a confined space has many foreseeable risks and adequate training on how to enter a confined space and work in a confined space is a requirement of the Confined Spaces Regulations 1997. There is a difference between confined space health and safety awareness training and skills training on how to work in a substantially enclosed space that may have a lack of oxygen, free-flowing solids and other hazardous substances.
An employer, as a minimum, MUST make employees aware of the dangers of working in a confined space provide adequate training on the foreseeable risks and carry out a risk assessment that details a safe system of work.
As well as receiving the correct training, workers should be regularly appraised and receive training refreshers to ensure that your skills and knowledge remain current and effective in maintaining safety standards. Over time, safety protocols and regulations can change, and regular refresher training helps you stay updated on the latest best practices. Additionally, it reinforces critical safety procedures and correct use of equipment, reducing the risk of accidents and injuries in confined spaces. Regular training also helps identify and address any gaps in knowledge or skills that may have developed since the initial training, ensuring a consistently high level of safety awareness and competence.
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