Review of Lockout Tag-Out Programs. Anytime your facility performs any kind of adjustment or maintenance on machinery or power systems it is required to use their Lockout Tag-Out Program. The Lockout Tag-Out Program is one of CAL/OSHA’s top 5 Programs that are required by every business.

Confined Spaces? Tanks and Ovens! CAL/OSHA announced its special emphasis program on confined-space hazards. If an inspector shows up at you facility for what ever reason, you will be asked for your Confined Space Program along with your other written safety programs.

What’s a confined space? Do you have plating tanks and/or waste treatment tanks, sumps, and/or crawl spaces under floors, etc that:

• Is large enough and configured such that an employee can bodily enter and perform work;
• Has limited openings for entry and exit;
• Is not designed for continuous employee occupancy;
• Has the potential for a hazardous atmosphere that may include the lack or too much oxygen, and/or the presence of toxic chemicals/vapors; and/or
• Has a physical safety hazard such as machinery, liquids, or lose unstable materials that can cause employees to be trapped or buried.

In general, the Confined Space Regulations require employers to have:

• A written confined space program, including recognizing and marking all confined spaces on site;
• Procedures to test and monitor the air inside confined spaces before and during all entries;
• Procedures to prevent unauthorized entries and to have an attendant outside the space at all times;
• Effective controls of all existing atmospheric or safety hazards inside the confined space, including lockout/tagout procedures;
• Employee and supervisor training on safe work procedures, hazard controls, and rescue procedures; and
• Effective rescue procedures which are immediately available on site.

This training class will cover what is and what isn’t a confined space, how to classify them and declassify them, the difference between a confined space and a permit required confined space. The equipment necessary to conduct a confined space and rescue procedures.

Remember, even if you bring in outside people to do the work, they have to follow your confined space procedures.

If you never do a confined space entry, you still need to classify and identify all confined spaces, have a company policy to that effect and train your employees.

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