Confined Space Entry

This OHSA Confined Space Entry Course (CSE1), contains three nationally recognised units of competency including RIIWHS202D Enter and work in confined spaces, MSMPER205 Enter confined space and MSMPER200 Work in accordance with an issued permit. This is considered the initial course for those working in or near confined spaces and is recommended before you wish to proceed onto the OHSA Gas Testing and Permit Issuer Course (CSE2).

The Confined Space Entry course is designed for people who work in or around confined space areas. It is the initial basic introductory course which allows someone to conduct a risk assessment and enter a confined space environment to conduct work.

This course is available at our training centres in Brisbane and the Gold Coast. We are also able to conduct on-site training with either our purpose-built mobile training facility, or at a workplace and tailor the training course to suit the practical scenarios relevant to your company’s operations.

Course Content:

Working in confined space environments is a high-risk activity and has been responsible for many work-related deaths and injuries. Legislation requires that all persons with work activities related to confined or restricted space/s, must undertake appropriate training and be assessed as competent, to perform those activities in accordance with Australian Standard AS2865 Safe Working in a Confined Space.

While there is a standard set of learning outcomes for the course, we understand that the context and environment in which the learning is applied is varied.

It is designed to teach students how to:

• Identify confined space hazards
• Work safely within such spaces according to an issued permit
• Operate various confined space safety equipment.

Safe Work Australia’s Confined Spaces Code of Practice February 2014 defined the term as meaning: an enclosed or partially enclosed space that:

• is not designed or intended primarily to be occupied by a person; and
• is, or is designed or intended to be, at normal atmospheric pressure while any person is in the space; and

is or is likely to be a risk to health and safety from:

• an atmosphere that does not have a safe oxygen level, or
• contaminants, including airborne gases, vapours and dusts, that may cause injury from fire or explosion, or
• harmful concentrations of any airborne contaminants, or
• engulfment

Examples of such spaces include (but are not limited to):

• Pits
• Tanks
• Process and Pressure vessels
• Boilers
• Silos and other tank-like compartments
• Pipes
• Sewers and Sewer pump stations including wet and dry wells, shafts and ducts
• Shipboard spaces entered through small hatchways or access points, cargo tanks, cellular double bottom tanks, duct keels, ballast or oil tanks and void spaces