Among other things, the OSHA standard
requires the employer's written permit-required confined
space program to:
- Identify and evaluate permit space hazards before allowing employee entry
- Test conditions in the permit space before entry operations and monitor the space during
entry
- Perform in the following sequence, appropriate testing for atmospheric hazards: oxygen,
combustible gases or vapors, and toxic gases or vapors
- Implement necessary measures to prevent unauthorized entry
- Establish and implement the means, procedures and practices to eliminate or control
hazards necessary for safe permit-space entry operations such as: specifying acceptable
entry conditions, isolating the permit space, providing barriers, verifying acceptable
entry conditions, purging, making inert, flushing, or ventilating the permit space.
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