×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Permit required confined space

Permit required confined space

Permit required confined space

(OP)
how long can you keep a permit open? (multiple crew entry and job lasting more that 1 day)

RE: Permit required confined space

Some facilities, based on their written procedures use the same posted form for multiple consecutive shifts/days.  You still need to do all the prescribed safety checks on a regular basis and have it reflected on the permit.  It just saves on having to fill out a new form for each day/shift.  The form will need to be big enough to reflect entrants, watchers, gas testing, etc.

RE: Permit required confined space

omar,

See: 1910.146(e)(4)

OSHA States that

"The duration of the permit may not exceed the time required to complete the assigned task or job identified on the permit in accordance with paragraph (f)(2) of this section."

MJC

  

RE: Permit required confined space

The permit can remain open as long as the crew or at least the hole watch is there.  If everyone leaves for lunch, you should really renew the permit because without constant monitoring, conditions could change and the confined space could become deadly for an entrant.

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources