Confined Space Awareness Training: Recognize the Risks

Awareness training teaches employees to recognize confined spaces, understand why they're dangerous, and know not to enter without authorization. It's designed for people who work near confined spaces but won't enter them.

The library includes Confined Spaces, a 25-minute online course, and Confined Spaces: Identifying Hazards. Short videos on personnel, permits and protection and on construction best practices round out the training.

Any employee who works in a facility or jobsite with confined spaces should take it. That includes maintenance, production, warehouse and construction workers, as well as supervisors who assign work near these spaces.

A confined space is large enough to enter, has limited ways in or out, and isn't designed for continuous occupancy. Examples include tanks, vaults, pits, silos, manholes and crawl spaces.

Many confined space deaths involve would-be rescuers who enter without training or equipment. Awareness training teaches employees to recognize the danger and call for trained help instead of going in.

The video lessons run 6 to 10 minutes each, and the Confined Spaces online course runs about 25 minutes.

No. Employees who enter permit-required spaces, or serve as attendants or entry supervisors, need full confined space entry training. See our Confined Space Entry Training Online library.