Espacios confinados y excavaciones

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

Trabajos con aire comprimido en túneles y cajones

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

Construcción subterránea, pozos y túneles

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.

Espacios confinados y cerrados en astilleros

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…

Supervisor de entrada a espacios confinados que requiere permiso (industria general)

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.

Espacios confinados en la construcción

Para los trabajadores de la construcción que puedan entrar o estar presentes en un espacio confinado que requiera permiso: reconocer los espacios confinados y los que requieren permiso, verificar el permiso y realizar las pruebas antes de entrar, desempeñar las funciones de entrada y de atención, y conocer cómo funciona el rescate.

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)