Confined Space Training Ontario: If you are required to work in a confined space, then proper training will help to keep you safe.

Acute has over 100 years of combined experience with in-house or on-site worker environmental and safety training. We want to help you get the training you need to keep your workers safe.

We’ll explain who needs confined space training, give you examples of confined spaces and answer all of your questions surrounding the training. So, let’s get started.

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Confined Space Training Ontario

If you work in a high risk confined space, then you are required to take confined space training. According to the Ontario’s Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development Confined Spaces Regulation (O. Reg. 632/05),

“Every worker who enters a confined space or who performs related work shall be given adequate training for safe work practices for working in confined spaces and for performing related work, including training in the recognition of hazards associated with confined spaces.”

So anyone who works in and around confined spaces needs to get training, including:

  • Employers
  • Supervisors
  • Workers
  • Attendants not entering the confined space such as rescue workers

Your employer is responsible to appoint a person who has adequate knowledge, training, and experience to do this training. Acute Safety and Safety Services can provide this type of training for you.

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Anyone who works in and around confined spaces need to get proper training

What Qualifies as a Confined Space?

A confined space is defined as a partially or fully enclosed space that is not designed or constructed for continuous human occupancy and where atmospheric hazards could occur. This is due to its construction, location, or contents; or because of the type of work done in it.

Here are some examples of confined spaces:

  • Tanks, drums
  • Tank cars, holds
  • Manholes, sewers, shafts
  • Silos, bins, hoppers
  • Tunnels, culverts
  • Vaults, lockers
  • Cellars, pits
  • Vats, tanks, vessels, tubs
  • Ditches, wells, walls, pits
  • Pipelines, ducts

Confined spaces can be located both above and below ground.

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A confined space is a partially or fully enclosed space that is not designed or constructed for continuous human occupancy

Confined Space Training Ontario: Answers to Your Most Pressing Questions

No. ACUTE’s Confined Space Entry training course has no prerequisites. Confined Space training does not usually have any prerequisite requirements regardless of training provider.

The Regulation for Health Care and Residential Facilities (O. Reg. 67/93) speaks of a “restricted space” in section 42. Here a restricted space refers, in part, to a “space from which the egress of a worker is restricted, limited, or impeded.” A “restricted space” may also be a confined space, thus, an evaluation of the space may determine that the area is either a confined space, a restricted space, or both.

It is highly recommended that you take the course every three years. Once you have the certification, however, future attendance is up to company policy.

Training is just as important for experienced workers as it is for new workers. Appropriate hands-on training is the best way to ensure proper understanding of confined spaces. Experienced workers can act as great role models to newer employees by modelling proper safety practices.

When you are working in a confined space, there should be warning signs in place to alert others and prevent unauthorized entry into the confined space. You must constantly be aware of changing conditions within the confined space. If there is danger, you and other workers should leave immediately.

Attendants need to be trained in confined space rescue procedures. They should be stationed outside the confined space, ready to provide assistance if an emergency situation arises. They also should have a basic first-aid certificate, be able to do Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), have all the required rescue equipment, and have an alarm to call for help.

The Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development requires that confined space training should include some hands-on training that includes the use of safety equipment, personal protective equipment, and safety harnesses.

Yes. A record of your training must be kept, however, they can be recorded on the entry permit if you incorporate it into the record. Entry permits must also be kept.

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It is advised to take a refresher confined space course after 3 years

Why Choose ACUTE for Your Confined Space Training Ontario?

There are many great reasons to choose ACUTE for your confined space training. Here are a few.

You Can Train at Our Facility

By completing your training on-site at ACUTE you can:

  • Benefit from our spacious training room
  • Complete your training in our state of the art hands-on training space
  • Enjoy the full use of our break room

We Can Come to You

We can conduct your confined space training at your facility or at our own training facility, whichever will suit your needs best. By completing your training on-site we can save your staff travel time and do your training where you will be working.

ACUTE’s Confined Space Training Ontario Courses

Confined Space Entry Awareness Training

This course covers:

  • Confined space entry accidents
  • Regulation 632/05 – confined spaces overview
  • Statutory and regulatory responsibilities
  • Confined space documents
  • Recognizing confined space entry hazards
  • Assessing risk and controlling hazards
  • Evaluating control measures and air quality monitoring
  • Ventilation and purging
  • Lock-out/tag-out and rescue planning

This course will equip a participant with an understanding of how to perform as an entrant, attendant or competent person. Participants will also have the opportunity to become familiar with, inspect, and use Confined Space Entry (CSE) access equipment and air quality instrumentation. You will learn by:

  • Classroom interaction with experienced instructors
  • Performing hazard assessment and applying appropriate control measures
  • Demonstration and hands-on training in the inspection, care and use of personal protective and rescue equipment
  • Detailed handouts, videos and quizzes

Course Length: This course is 8 hours in length. (1 day)

Confined Space Rescue

This course covers:

  • The Ontario Confined Space legislation
  • Protection of personnel from hazards within the confined space
  • Size-up of existing and potential hazards in confined space emergencies
  • Risk assessment and hazard control hierarchy
  • Evaluation of controls and rescue types
  • Plan and implement a confined space rescue operation
  • Management of the physical and psychological challenges in confined spaces
  • Use of victim packaging devices and proper lifting techniques
  • Use of respiratory protection equipment and when such equipment is required for rescue operations

This course builds on the fundamentals taught in the Confined Space Awareness course to cover rescue planning and the use of Confined Space rescue equipment for either non-entry or entry rescue. This course will equip participants with an understanding of how to perform rescue operations in support of a confined space entry project.

Course Length: This course is 8 hours in length (1 day).

More Reasons to Choose ACUTE

With over 100 years of combined industry experience, you can trust that with ACUTE, you will experience only the best comprehensive and hands-on Confined Space training. Here are some ways that ACUTE goes beyond government compliance in Ontario health and safety training.

  • Open Door Instructor-Student Partnership: ACUTE’s training services emphasize client participation. Staff foster relationships with clients and serve as a touchstone for advice moving forward.
  • Serving Your Team and Industry: With a vast array of clients in the manufacturing, construction, health, academic, and government sectors, ACUTE brings the best safety practices from across the spectrum to your workplace.
  • 100 Years of Combined Experience: ACUTE provides comprehensive health and safety training, on-site safety services, and consulting services. With over 100 years of combined experience, our staff offers more than theoretical or abstract ideas. ACUTE offers solutions.
  • Track Record of Success: ACUTE is rated 4.9/5 stars on Google reviews, demonstrating a commitment to our clients, quality, and a passion for training.

“We use ACUTE for all of our training requirements. They have excellent
instructors and a great facility.”

– David – Read more testimonials here