Here is a list of the main Pros and Cons to getting your confined space training online. Click on the links for each item to learn more.
You might also want to learn more by reading the following additional information sections:
Who Needs to Take Confined Space Training
What Should Your Confined Space Training Cover
Where to Take Your Confined Space Training
To sign up for thorough training that will keep you safe on the job, contact ACUTE.
Taking your confined space training online will not give you the necessary hands-on experience
Confined Space Training Online – Pros
Convenience:
One of the biggest advantages to taking your confined space training online is the convenience. You can do your training from home or wherever and whenever it is most convenient for you.
Even though doing confined space training online means that you can learn the theory involved in the training, you won’t be able to learn the practical side of things because the hands-on learning aspect is non-existent. Therefore, doing your training in person is the best option.
Health Concerns:
During particular times such as a pandemic, you may feel more comfortable with online training so that you don’t become exposed to harmful diseases.
However, if you are fully vaccinated and you choose a training provider that has taken the necessary precautions to provide safe, physically distanced learning, then you can feel more confident about doing your training in person.
Taking your confined space training online is convenient
Confined Space Training Online – Cons
Not Properly Trained:
It is difficult to become properly trained if you take your confined space training online. Online training allows you to read about the theories involved in keeping you safe in a confined space. However, what it won’t do is actually put those theories into practice at a training facility that provides you with real-work simulators that will give you the confidence and proper skills required when you are on the job to stay safe.
The Confined Space Guidelines put out by the Ontario government point out that simply giving instructions to a person working in a confined space will not ensure that they are competent to perform their job safely. They state that “Hands-on training should be an essential part of the confined space training.”
No Crucial Hands-on Experience with Equipment:
It’s not enough to simply give instructions to a worker who is going to be working in a confined space. In order to keep you safe and for you to become competent, you need to have hands-on experience with the actual equipment that you will be using at your workplace.
Using actual safety equipment in a confined space simulator will give you the expertise that will keep you safe when you have to use that same equipment in real life.
Lack of Instructor Interaction:
If you take your confined space training online, you can read about what is required while working in a confined space, but if you have any questions, you can’t ask an instructor face to face.
In addition, your instructor can’t ask you follow-up questions and quiz you to see if you really have understood the material that was covered. Reading about how to follow safety practices is totally different from actually getting a chance to put them into practice. Instead, having an instructor watch you to ensure that you are working correctly, and correcting anything that needs to be improved upon is much more valuable.
To become competent, you need to have hands-on experience with the actual equipment that you will be using at your workplace.
Who Needs to Take Confined Space Training
According to the Ontario Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development, “Every worker who works in a confined space must receive adequate training in the recognition of hazards associated with confined spaces and training to be able to safely perform the assigned duties for that specific confined space.
Training is also required for persons contributing to the work activity (i.e., performs related work) even those not entering the confined space, for example, attendants and rescue workers.”
What Should Your Confined Space Training Cover
Your confined space training should teach you the following:
- How to recognize and identify potential hazards associated with the confined spaces that will be entered.
- Teaching you the evaluation and control procedures for the identification of potential hazards.
- Getting you familiar with all equipment such as ventilation equipment (blowers), harnesses, and air quality monitors (e.g., Oxygen/combustible meters) that will be used while in the confined space.
- Helping you to become familiar with all personal protective equipment (e.g., respirators) that you will be using while in the confined space.
- Teaching you procedures for entering the confined space.
- Teaching you procedures to follow in the event of a situation developing that could present additional risk to you or in an emergency.
- Learning about the specific work to be done while in the confined space.
In-person training will teach you procedures for entering the confined space and let you try them out
Where to Take Your Confined Space Training
ACUTE Services offers you thorough confined space training where you will experience classroom interaction with experienced instructors, perform hazard assessments and apply appropriate control measures, witness demonstrations and hands-on training in the inspection, care, and use of personal protective and rescue equipment, and receive detailed handouts, videos, and quizzes.
Our confined space training includes a proper balance of classroom learning and in-the-field action at our world-class safety training center. We offer:
- Industry standard health and safety equipment and technologies
- Simulation areas for a full suite of training programs (i.e. working at heights, confined space, and hazardous materials)
- Classroom facilities for lecture and technical training delivery
- Human dummies for confined space rescue and hazardous material controls.
Consult ACUTE’s training course calendar to pick a date that works best for you.
Acute Safety & Safety Services
Get the Safety Training You Need from ACUTE.
Address: 730 Bridge Street West – Unit 3, Waterloo, ON, N2V 2J4
Phone: 519-747-5075
Fax: 519-747-4608
Email: info@acuteservices.com
ACUTE’s training helps you become familiar with personal protective equipment
Reasons to Choose ACUTE for your Safety Training
You can trust ACUTE for the best safety training possible. ACUTE’s experienced team members have been serving safety professionals for over 20 years. You can rely on ACUTE for hands-on, physically distanced, practical safety training to keep your employees safe in the workplace.
ACUTE is dedicated to workplace safety and understands the importance of course and training provider approval.
Why get workplace safety training with ACUTE? Here are just some of the benefits of working with ACUTE:
- Open Door Instructor-Student Partnership – ACUTE’s training services emphasize client participation. Staff foster relationships with clients and serve as a touchstone for advice anytime 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.
- Track Record of Success – ACUTE is rated 4.9/5 stars on Google reviews, demonstrating a commitment to our clients, quality, and passion for training.
What Our Customers Are Saying…
“The only place I’ve ever taken a safety training course where I felt I got more out of it than just a certificate. Many decades of experience throughout their staff and a wide variety of material for hands-on training.”
