['Confined Spaces']
['Permit-Required Confined Spaces']
10/29/2024
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For necessary maintenance, you might decide to hire a contractor, or your employees might share entry operations with a contractor. Even if contractors will handle all permit space entry, you aren’t free from responsibilities. The contractor will need information regarding permit space hazards and entry operations. As the host employer, you must:
- Inform the contractor that permit space entry is allowed only through compliance with a permit space program meeting OSHA’s requirements;
- Tell the contractor about the elements that make the confined space a permit space, including the hazards identified and your experience with the space; and
- Advise the contractor of any precautions or procedures you’ve implemented to protect employees in or near permit spaces where contractor personnel will be working.
You and the contractor will need to coordinate the entry and operations because certain activities near a permit space could affect conditions within the space. For example, running a generator nearby might introduce exhaust into the space.
Once the contractor has concluded the entry operations, you and the contractor must meet to discuss the program that was followed, as well as any hazards confronted.
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