Confined Spaces & Excavation

Permit spaces, attendants and entry supervisors, trenching, shafts and tunnels.

Compressed Air Work in Tunnels and Caissons

Learn the medical, compression, decompression, fire and emergency rules that protect you when you work in compressed air in a tunnel or caisson.

Underground Construction, Shafts and Tunnels

For tunnel, shaft and underground construction crews and supervisors: access and check-in/check-out, safety instruction, communications, self-rescuers and emergency provisions, gassy classifications, air monitoring, ventilation, fire prevention and ground support.

Shipyard Confined and Enclosed Spaces

For shipyard employees who enter tanks, holds, voids and other confined or enclosed spaces: testing order (oxygen, flammability, toxicity), limits and warning labels, entrant training, rescue teams, cleaning and cold work, hot work certificates, and…

Permit-Required Confined Space Entry Supervisor (General Industry)

Learn the entry supervisor's job under the permit-required confined space standard: confirming acceptable entry conditions, signing the permit, overseeing entry and terminating it.

Permit-Required Confined Space Attendant (General Industry)

Learn the duties of the attendant who stays outside a permit-required confined space: counting entrants, monitoring, ordering evacuation, summoning rescue, and keeping unauthorized people out.

Excavation Competent Person (Trenching and Excavation)

Learn the competent person's duties in excavation work: daily inspections, soil classification, protective system selection and the site hazards you control.

Welding Cutting and Heating in Confined Spaces

Learn the ventilation, respirator, attendant, toxic-metal and fire-prevention rules that apply when you weld, cut or heat inside a confined space on a construction site.

Confined Spaces in Construction

For construction workers who may enter or attend a permit-required confined space: recognize confined and permit spaces, check the permit and testing before entry, carry out entrant and attendant duties, and know how rescue works.

Permit-Required Confined Space Entrant (General Industry)

For authorized entrants in general industry: recognize a permit space and a hazardous atmosphere, check the permit and testing before you go in, use your equipment, stay in contact with the attendant, and get out…

Trenching and Excavation Safety for Workers (Caught-In/Between)

For workers who enter or work around trenches and excavations: when cave-in protection is required, how to get in and out safely, the hazards at the edge and in the hole, and what to do…
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Photos: Brooks Hubbard IV, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District (public domain, via DVIDS) · Rachel Landers, Office in Charge of Construction Marine Corps Marianas (public domain, via DVIDS) · Petty Officer 2nd Class Luke Cunningham, Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5 (public domain, via DVIDS) · Senior Airman Victoria Boyton, 4th Fighter Wing (public domain, via DVIDS) · Mario Icari, U.S. Navy (public domain, via DVIDS) · Gerald Rogers, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District (public domain, via DVIDS) · Lance Cpl. Sav Ford, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing (public domain, via DVIDS) · Airman 1st Class Kathryn Reaves, 20th Fighter Wing (public domain, via DVIDS) · Rachel Landers, Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz (NAVFAC Marianas) (public domain, via DVIDS) · Senior Airman Gage Daniel, Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa (public domain, via DVIDS) · Scott Hansen, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility (public domain, via DVIDS)