📚 Guide by Safety Mom · Allstar Enviro Safety — The Confined Space Entry Team Constuction Activities is an online workplace safety course delivered by Safety Mom · Allstar Enviro Safety, Calgary’s Energy Safety Canada Authorized Training Provider. Self-paced, mobile-friendly, same-day certificate upon exam completion. Available across Canada.
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CONFINED SPACES: ENTRY TEAM TRAINING – CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES COURSE OVERVIEW
By their very nature, confined spaces restrict a worker’s ability to safely enter, exit, and work inside them for long periods of time.
Even more dangerous are permit-required confined spaces, which have one or more additional hazards: a potential hazardous atmosphere, material that could engulf a worker, an internal configuration that could trap or asphyxiate, or another serious safety or health hazard. These conditions can, and have, resulted in situations that injure or claim the lives of workers just like you.
After completing this course, learners will be able to:
- Describe the difference between a confined space and a permit-required confined space
- Identify the hazards in a permit-required confined space and the methods used to isolate, control, or in other ways protect employees
- Recognize the precautions that must be taken before a confined space is entered
- Explain the duties of each entry team member (authorized entrant, attendant, and entry supervisor)
- Discuss the measures taken to ensure a successful permit space rescue and non-entry rescue
CONFINED SPACES: ENTRY TEAM TRAINING – CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES COURSE TOPICS:
- Confined Spaces
- Construction Work
- Competent Person
- Confined Space (defined)
- Permit-Required Confined Space (defined)
- Permit-Required Confined Space Hazards
- Atmospheric Hazards
- Engulfment Hazards
- Physical Hazards
- Other Safety Hazards
- Permit Space Entry Team
- Duties of the Authorized Entrant
- Duties of the Attendant
- Duties of the Entry Supervisor
- Rescue and Emergency Services
- Internal or External Rescue Team
- Employer Duties
- Rescue Employees
- Non-Entry Rescue
CONFINED SPACES: ENTRY TEAM TRAINING – CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES COURSE DURATION:Approximately 45 minutes
CONFINED SPACES: ENTRY TEAM TRAINING – CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES TESTING: Testing conducted in this online Confined Spaces: Entry Team Training – Construction Activities course is designed to reinforce the information presented. A mark of 80% must be achieved in order to receive a certificate of completion. Users are able to repeat the course twice if the pass mark is not achieved.
CONFINED SPACES: ENTRY TEAM TRAINING – CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION:Upon successful completion of this online course, a certificate of completion will be available to download and print.
UNIVERSALLY COMPATIBLE
This course was created using standards that will allow playback on most internet capable devices with standard web browsing capabilities including Apple’s iTouch, iPad, and iPhone, as well as most other smart phones and tablets including those with Android and Windows operating systems.
CONFINED SPACES: ENTRY TEAM TRAINING – CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES COURSE PREVIEW:
Additional Safety Knowledge
What Alberta OHS Defines as a Confined Space
Alberta OHS Code Part 5 defines a confined space as an enclosed or partially enclosed space that is not designed for continuous human occupancy, has limited or restricted entry, and could contain a hazardous atmosphere, engulfment hazard, entrapment hazard, or any other recognised serious safety or health hazard. Examples include storage tanks, sewers, silos, pipelines, boilers, vaults, tunnels, manholes, pits, and process vessels.
Atmospheric Testing Before Entry
Before any entry, a competent worker must test the atmosphere in this order: oxygen, flammability, then toxicity. Acceptable atmospheric parameters:
- Oxygen: 19.5–23.0% by volume. Below 19.5% is oxygen-deficient; above 23% is oxygen-enriched (fire risk).
- Flammable gas/vapour: less than 10% of the lower explosive limit (LEL).
- Toxic substances: below the applicable occupational exposure limit (H2S below 10 ppm, CO below 25 ppm in Alberta).
Continuous monitoring is required for the duration of the entry. Any change in reading requires immediate evacuation and re-assessment.
Entry Roles: Entrant, Attendant, Supervisor
Every confined space entry needs three defined roles. The entrant performs the work inside. The attendant stays outside, maintains constant visual or communication contact, monitors atmospheric readings, and initiates rescue — but never enters. The entry supervisor authorises the entry, verifies all controls are in place, and terminates the entry when conditions change. In Alberta, the attendant cannot leave the post while any worker is inside.
Confined Space Entry Team Constuction Activities — Rescue Planning
OSHA data shows more than 60% of confined space fatalities are would-be rescuers who entered without proper training or equipment. Non-entry rescue (retrieval systems, tripods, winches) must be planned wherever practical. If entry rescue is required, a trained rescue team with SCBA, communications, and defined rescue procedures must be on-site or immediately available before entry begins.
Content reviewed by Arliss Levine, CRSP, CHSC — lead safety instructor at Safety Mom · Allstar Enviro Safety Calgary, an Energy Safety Canada Authorized Training Provider.
