Hi Learned Friends,

I am currently moving into an area that has not been covered much within our company which is confined spaces as in policy/procedure surveys and assessments etc. I would like to gather as much info as possible to ensure full conformance so if anyone can help in any way, even pointing me in the right direction of good information etc, it would be greatly appreciated as i am sure some of you have been in this field for a number of years.

Regards

Alan

Thanks for the reply, but i obviously know the regulations you elude too, I was looking more to draw on peoples experience in the field to gather a better more practical picture as indeed i have in the past when helping others in my own specialist field.

Alan

If you've been given responsibility for CS in your company, then you need to go on a training course. CS entry is an extremely high-risk activity and both doing it and planning for others to do it requires the levels of competence you're not going to get by talking to some bloke on t'intarwebs.

Also, everyone has different spaces with differing problems - what happened to work for one person is like a chocolate fireguard for someone else. As we've said in the thread on loft access, the only person who can tell if a confined space is safe to enter (or if it's a confined space at all) is the one standing there looking at it.