Module 1
This module will cover the following areas;
- Introduction
- Legislation
- Prepare for confined space rescue
- Primary duty of care
- Entry personnel
- What is a confined space?
- Controls for a confined space
- Standards
- Summary
- Working in accordance with procedures
- Confined space situations
- Workers entering confined spaces
- Duty of care
- Entry requirements
- Permit spaces
- Why have a permit?
- Employers duties
- Rescue teams positions and roles
- Recommended training requirements
- Confined space rescue equipment
- Types of ventilation
- Factors to consider
- Purging and ventilation
- Types of ducting
- Purge time
- Exhaust location
- LEV suitability
- Push/pull systems
- Other different systems
- Chemistry of fire
- Fire classifications
- Fire extinguishers
- Flammable range
- LEL and UEL
- Dust explosions
- Prepare for confined space rescue
- Sources of information
- Phases of rescue
- Safety equipment
- Elements of fall prevention systems
- Retrieval systems and methods
- Inspections of equipment
- Ropes and lines
- Tying knots
- Equipment for the rescue of the casualty
- Stretchers
- Extrication methods
- Extrication device
- Back boards
- Head immobilisers
- Cervical collars
- Splints
- Defibrulator
- Communication equipment
- Ideal requirements for a confined space entry communication system
- Maintaining communication
- Intrinsically safe equipment
- The Hot Stick
- Atmospheric monitoring equipment
- Flammable gas detectors
- Chemical tubes
- Gas badges
- Respiratory equipment
- Selection, use and maintenance
- Types of equipment
- Self contained BA
- Categories of equipment
- Open circuit systems
- Closed circuit systems
- Limitations of equipment
- Reasons for BA protection
- Judgement to use equipment
- Radioactive equipment
- Employers responsibility
- Employees responsibility
- Health and safety standards
- Respiration
- Composition of air
- Toxic and poisonous substances
- How do BA sets work?
- Aim of the BA board
- Branclines
- DUCOT
- Duration of SCBA
- Turnaround pressure
- Calculating time of whistle
- Operation checks
- BA donning checks
- Start up checks
- Limitations of BA sets
- Purpose of a guideline
- Controls when using guidelines
- Using tallies
- Searching with a guideline
- Safety and operational procedures
- Safe working practices
- Emergency procedures
- Entrapped procedures
- Searching
- Introduction
- Legislation
- Prepare for confined space rescue
- Primary duty of care
- Entry personnel
- What is a confined space?
- Controls for a confined space
- Standards
- Summary
- Working in accordance with procedures
- Confined space situations
- Workers entering confined spaces
- Duty of care
- Entry requirements
- Permit spaces
- Why have a permit?
- Employers duties
- Rescue teams positions and roles
- Recommended training requirements
- PPE and thermal protection
- Personal capabilities and limitations
- Hierarchy of controls
- Isolation
- Lock-out and tag-out procedures
- Organisation and response requirements
- Hazard controls in confined spaces
- Receiving the call
- Size up
- Primary and secondary information
- Abiding by traffic laws
- Audible and visual alarms
- Securing and preserving the scene
- Evidence at the scene
- Pre-incident planning
- Physical injury
- Liaising during confined space incident
- Initial planning
- Procedures
- Written procedures
- Confined space goals and phases
- Obtain information
- The three Cs
- Scene assessment
- Grading casualties
- Phase 2 assessment
- Pre-entry operations
- Atmospheric monitoring equipment
- Establish communications
- Clarify verbal instructions
- Locate casualties
- Casualty situation
- Thermal image camera
- Testing
- Layering of gases
- Confined space plan
- Crew responsibilities
- Chemistry of fire
- Fire classifications
- Fire extinguishers
- Flammable range
- LEL and UEL
- Dust explosions