When you have permit-required confined spaces at your facility, you are required to establish procedures for how a worker is rescued from the space in the event of an injury or accident. Basically, there are two options for rescue: use in-house personnel to rescue the worker by entering the confined space and use outside emergency personnel to rescue workers. (A third option, rescuing the workers in a confined space using in-house personnel who do not enter the space is can also be utilized. However, since, should they fail, another rescue option would need to be employed, it is really a subset of these two.)... Read more