City & Guilds – 6160-04 – Control Entry and Arrangements for Confined Space (High Risk)
Who should attend?
This unit is for the entry controller/top person who controls entry and arrangements for high risk confined spaces without entering them. It includes the duties of an entry controller, pre-entry procedures, entry into and exit from the high risk confined space, maintaining communications and initiating and controlling emergency procedures.
Course Aims & Objectives
The aim of this unit is to reflect the national occupational standard for controlling entry and arrangements at a confined space. This unit covers both water and non-water industry areas.
Water: this may include working with potable water, sewage treatment processes, drain and sewer cleaning operations, or where the operative is working in or near water, or where a confined space is subject to surface water flooding.
Non-water: this may include pharmaceutical, petrochemical, asbestos removal, vehicle manufacture and servicing, aeronautical, construction, communications, power, utilities gas, electrical and mechanical engineering and some elements of work operations in mines, quarries and tunnelling.
Course Outline
- Implement procedures for teams working in high risk confined spaces including work plan, equipment and competent work team
- Control safe entry and exit to the high risk confined space including atmospheric conditions, procedures, records, resolving problems and unsafe activity.
- Monitor the work team to ensure procedures are followed, including control access and monitoring the work team
- Control emergency situations, including emergency arrangements & records and reports
- Understand health and safety and environmental legislation, including Health, Safety & Environmental legislation, hazards, substances and situations.
- Understand standard protocols for work in high risk confined spaces, including classification scheme, risk weighting factors, communication methods and line of communication, procedures and methods.
- Understand entry controller duties and responsibilities including pre-entry briefing, key requirements, ventilation systems, vigilant, incidents, effects on personnel, decontamination procedures, documentation, reporting systems.
- Understand equipment checks and testing required including standards, actions, safety, escape and emergency equipment, factors, defects, ways in which monitoring equipment can malfunction
Certification
Delegates will complete a practical observation and a short answer question paper. On successful completion of the course, candidates will be issued with a photo ID card and a City & Guilds Certificate which is valid for three years.
Duration
3 Days
Location
Ipswich
