Synopses & Reviews
EVERY SECOND COUNTS WHEN YOU'RE RESPONDING TO AN EMERGENCY INVOLVINGCONFINED SPACEHERE'S THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO PERFORMING FLAWLESS RESCUES!
Confined Space Entry and Emergency Response utilizes a realistic, scenario-based approach to teach youand your staffthe right way to respond to an incident involving a confined space. The authors provide intensive, step-by-step guidance through the challenging maze of training regulations, equipment needs, and procedures to keep your response team finely tuned and ready to go under any conditions.
You'll find expert, detailed coverage of complexand often confusingtopics such as:
- The basic components of rescue
- OSHA's regulations for confined space entry and rescue
- Confined space entry permitting
- Assessing confined space hazards
- Hazardous atmospheres and how to protect entrants from them
- Air monitoring in confined spaces
- Selection and use of personal protective equipment
- The use of ropes and rigging
The CD-ROM includes the Instructor's Guide along with lesson plans and useful practice tools such as worksheets, exercise handouts, performance checklists, diagrams and equipment lists for field exercises, instructions for building field training simulators, and guidelines for identifying rescue trainers and evaluating their competency as well as that of outside rescue teams.
Everything you need to effectively train those working in a confined space can truly be found within these pages and on the CD-ROM.
Review
"…recommended for environmental health and safety officers and other personnel…a valuable addition to a corporate or personal library…" (
E-STREAMS, September 2007)
"I thoroughly enjoyed reviewing this book and the accompanying CD. I strongly recommend it to anyone involved in confined space entry at the operational or training level." (Journal of Hazardous Materials, September 1, 2006)
Synopsis
This book addresses the information and training needs of two distinct, but overlapping, audiences: those involved in routine entry and work in confined spaces and those involved in confined space rescue. Examples of routine entrants include industrial workers who enter vessels and public employees who enter vaults. Rescuers include private-sector rescue teams and public emergency services personnel.
Using a scenario-based approach, this book takes trainees from ground zero through all the training requirements of the multiple standards relating to confined spaces. Confined Space Entry and Rescue provides the trainer with everything needed to train those who will be working in a confined space.
The book details issues such as OSHA’ s definitions of confined and permit-required confined spaces, confined space permitting, hazardous atmospheres in confined spaces, and how to identify and monitor the air.
The book is divided into 4 parts: Part I presents the information needed to judge whether a space is confined and if a permit is needed for entry. Part II guides the reader through protective measures that eliminate or control hazards. Part III describes the equipment commonly used in confined space entry and rescue. Part IV covers confined space rescue – including planning, equipment, and precautions.
Synopsis
Everything you need to effectively train those working in a confined space can truly be found within these pages and on the CD-ROM.
About the Author
This book was written by the staff of the
Workplace Safety Training Program as a part of the Center for Labor Education and Research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The program is committed to advancing the health and safety of workers and emergency responders.
D. Alan Veasey is Director of the Workplace Safety Training Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is a firefighter/EMT and a certified confined space and rope rescue technician. His specialty training areas are chemical safety, hazardous materials emergency response, and confined space entry and rescue.
Lisa Craft McCormick is the former curriculum coordinator for the Workplace Safety Training Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is a confined space and rope rescue technician. Her speciality training areas include hazardous materials chemistry, hazardous materials emergency response, and confined space entry and rescue.
Barbara M. Hilyer was the former director of the Workplace Safety Training Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She was a leading authority on training techniques for effective safety and health training. Her specialty training areas included toxicology, hazard and risk assessment, andtraining methods.
Kenneth W. Oldfield is the Industrial Hygiene Services Manager at the Workplace Safety Training Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is a certified industrial hygienist. His specialty training areas include computer applications, hazardous materials air monitoring, personal protective equipment, and respirator facepiece fit-testing.
Sam Hansen is an instructor at the Workplace Safety Training Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He holds the rank of Battalion Chief in the fire service and is a certified confined space and rope rescue technician. His specialty training areas include hazardous materials emergency response, confined space entry and rescue, and incident management systems.
Theodore H. Krayer is the Training Manager at the Workplace Safety Training Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is a firefighter/EMT and a certified confined space and rope rescue technician. His specialty training areas include hazardous materials emergency response, confined space entry and rescue, and incident management.
Table of Contents
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
PART I: BASIC CONFINED SPACE.
Chapter 1. Introduction to Confined Spaces.
Chapter 2. Regulatory and Administrative Aspects of Confined Space Entry and Rescue.
Chapter 3. Identifying Confined Space Hazards.
Chapter 4. Air Monitoring in Confined Spaces.
Chapter 5. The Entry Permit.
PART II: PROTECTIVE MEASURES.
Chapter 6. Controlling Confined Space Hazards.
Chapter 7. Respiratory Protection.
Chapter 8. Chemical Protective Clothing.
Chapter 9. Personal Safety Equipment.
Chapter 10. Safe Use of Personal Protective Equipment.
PART III: EQUIPMENT AND ENTRY.
Chapter 11. Ropes, Webbing, Harnesses, and Hardware.
Chapter 12. Tying Knots.
Chapter 13. Rigging and Using Basic Systems for Confined Space Operations.
Chapter 14. Making Entry Safely.
PART IV: RESCUE.
Chapter 15. Overview of Confined Space Rescue.
Chapter 16. Rescue Team Organization and Management.
Chapter 17. Rigging and Using Rescue Systems.
Chapter 18. Packaging and transferring Patients for Confined Space Rescue.
Appendix I: Permit-Required Confined Space Decision Flowchart.
Appendix II: Examples of Permit-Reqired Confined Space Programs.
Appendix III: Rescue Team or Rescue Service Evaluation Criteria.
References.
Index.