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(4) Contains any other recognized serious safety or health hazard. Permit-required confined space program (permit space program) means the employer's overall program for controlling, and, where appropriate, for protecting employees from, permit space hazards and for regulating employee entry into permit spaces.

Permit-required confined spaces should be tested before entry and continually monitored. OSHA standards require using a direct-reading portable gas monitor to test the atmosphere in the following order: first for oxygen, then for combustible gases and lastly for toxic gases and vapors before entering.

OSHA uses the term "permit-required confined space" (permit space) to describe a confined space that has one or more of the following characteristics: contains or has the potential to contain a hazardous atmosphere; contains material that has the potential to engulf an entrant; has walls that converge inward or floors ...

The entry supervisor is responsible for determining whether acceptable entry conditions exist, authorizing the entry, overseeing entry operations, terminating the entry, and canceling the entry permit. Per the OSHA regulation, the entry supervisor must: Know the hazards. Verify safe entry conditions.

The terms ?permit-required confined space? and ?permit space? refer to spaces that meet OSHA's definition of a ?confined space? and contain health or safety hazards. For this reason, OSHA requires workers to have a permit to enter these spaces.

An example of a permit required confined space is a sewer entry. The employees could be exposed to toxic or flammable gases (a hazardous atmosphere), engulfment, and oxygen deficiency (serious health hazard). Proper procedures must take place before the entry.

The key characteristics of a confined space are: the space must be substantially enclosed. there must be a risk of at least one of the hazards listed above occurring within the space. the risk of serious injury from the hazard must be created by virtue of the enclosed nature of the space.