Trenches & Tight Spaces — Excavations; Confined Spaces in Construction (Subparts P, AA)

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

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…

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)