Confined Space Training Ontario: If you are required to work in a confined space, then proper training will not only help to keep you safe, but it is a legal requirement.
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 take a closer look at the course contents of both the Confined Space Entry Awareness and the Confined Space Rescue programs offered by ACUTE. So, let’s get started.
Confined Space Training Ontario: It is a legal requirement
Confined Space Training Ontario
Working in a confined space can be very dangerous unless you have been trained and are following proper safety procedures. You’ll discover confined spaces in almost every industry and you must use extreme caution before entering and working in them.
A confined space is not designed for continuous workplace occupancy and it may have limited or restricted access for entry or exit. An area is considered a confined space if it has one or more of the following characteristics:
- It has inward sloping walls that taper into a smaller area that could trap or asphyxiate you.
- It has downward sloping floors that taper into a smaller area that could trap or asphyxiate you.
- It contains or has the potential to contain an atmosphere that is hazardous to you.
- It contains any type of material that could possibly engulf or trap you.
- It contains unguarded machinery or has exposed live wires.
- It is an area where you could develop heat stress.
- It contains any other safety or health hazards.
A confined space is not designed for continuous workplace occupancy
Confined Space Training Ontario: ACUTE’s Courses
ACUTE offers two Confined Space Entry Courses: Confined Space Entry Awareness and Confined Space Rescue. Both of these training courses are specially designed to protect you if you work in or around a confined space.
Note: Entry doesn’t mean that your whole body needs to enter the space, it can, but it also means placing any part of your body into the confined space.
Confined Space Entry
Purpose: The purpose of this course is to familiarize you with the requirements of Ontario Regulation 632/05 – Confined Spaces. Furthermore, the training program is intended to give you the skills and training required to recognize confined space entry risks and how to establish measured and corresponding controls. You will have the opportunity to become familiar with, inspect and use Confined Space Entry (CSE) access equipment and air quality instrumentation during your training.
Length of Course: This training lasts for one full day of 8 hours. The hours are usually from 8:30 am – 4:30 pm.
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this training.
Requirements: You must wear appropriate CSA footwear during your training.
There are no prerequisites for Confined Space Entry Awareness training
Who Should Take This Training?
If you are an employer, supervisor or worker who enters or performs related work around confined spaces, then this course is for you. Ask about our customized confined space courses for managers, employers, health and safety administrators and those responsible for implementing confined space policies or programs.
Course Contents
- Confined space entry accidents
- Regulation 632/05 – confined spaces overview
- Statutory and regulatory responsibilities
- Confined space documents
- Recognizing confined space entry hazards: You will learn how to recognize possible hazards such as the air inside the confined space doesn’t have enough oxygen or the air is toxic or flammable
- Assessing risk: You will be taught how to assess the risk involved in entering the confined space
- Controlling hazards: You will learn how to evaluate and control any identified or potential hazards
- Evaluating control measures
- Air quality monitoring
- Ventilation and purging
- Lock-out/Tag-out
- Rescue planning
Learning Techniques:
Classroom interaction with experienced instructors: ACUTE’s Instructors have over 100 years of combined experience to provide you with more than just theory or abstract ideas.
Performing hazard assessment and applying appropriate control measures: You will learn how to assess potential hazards and then be able to decide on and apply the right control tactics to control those hazards.
Demonstration and hands-on training in the inspection, care and use of personal protective and rescue equipment: Hands-on training is vitally important for successful confined space training. That is why ACUTE provides you with lots of opportunities to enter confined spaces during training in a safe and controlled environment, and practice using your personal protective and rescue equipment.
Detailed handouts, videos and quizzes: ACUTE also employs a variety of learning methods to make sure that the information and knowledge acquired during your training remains with you. This is important because it will ensure that you remember your training when you are in a situation where you need to use it.
Confined Space Rescue
Purpose: The contents of our Confined Space Rescue Course will actually build on the contents of our Confined Space Entry Awareness course. Its purpose is to train participants in the safety considerations of a rescue and how to safely perform a rescue from a confined space.
Length of Course: This training lasts for one full day of 8 hours. Usually the hours are from 8:30 am – 4:30 pm.
Prerequisites: Participants are required to have successfully taken our Confined Space Entry Awareness training before taking this course.
Requirements: You must wear appropriate CSA footwear during your training. This program has a very significant practical component that can be physically demanding for some. You will have the opportunity to extricate weighted mannequins from our confined space simulators which requires considerable physical effort.
You need to take Confined Space Entry Awareness training before you take Rescue training
Who Should Take This Training?
If you are an employer, supervisor, or worker who may be involved in planning or implementing a confined space rescue plan in your workplace, then this course is for you. Confined space Attendants and Entry Rescuers will find this course extremely helpful.
Course Contents
- Regulation 632/05 – Confined Spaces rescue obligations and prohibitions review
- Protection of personnel from hazards within the confined space
- Size-up of existing and potential hazards in confined space emergencies
- Risk assessment
- Hazard control hierarchy
- Evaluation of controls
- Plan and implement a confined space rescue operation
- Management of the physical and psychological challenges in confined spaces
- Rescue types
- Use of victim packaging devices
- Proper lifting techniques
- Use of respiratory protection equipment and when such equipment is required for rescue operations
Learning Techniques:
Classroom interaction with experienced instructors: With a combined experience of over 100 years, ACUTE’s instructors are best qualified to teach you everything you need to know about confined space rescues.
Sizing up hazards and applying appropriate control measures
Creating rescue plans: You will learn how to make effective and life-saving rescue plans.
Employing victim packaging techniques and equipment: You will be taught how to use the equipment and techniques necessary to rescue victims.
Using man-safe mechanical advantage systems.
Performing hands-on rescue exercises involving the removal of incapacitated entrants from variously configured confined spaces: Practice is the best way to learn and ACUTE will give you plenty of practice performing simulated rescues using weighted mannequins.
Detailed handouts, videos and quizzes: ACUTE trainers use a wide range of learning methods to make sure that the information and knowledge acquired during your training will stick with you so you use it later when you really need it.
Learn to do rescues with weighted mannequins
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
