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Best Safety Practice: Entry into Permit-Required Confined Spaces

September 2015
 
by Kent Freeman
 
OSHA Safety Gear
 
An authorized entrant equipped with harness and personal atmospheric monitor prepares to enter a wine tank.

Constellation Brands management teams in the Central Coast region contacted California Health & Rescue Training to assist them in developing a confined space training program in late 2014. They felt strongly that confined space entries continue to be a highly dangerous operation, and they wanted to enhance the training of all personnel. They had identified specific personnel within their facilities that they wanted to focus specialized training for in order for them to provide in-house training of other employees.

 

 
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