As a general contractor, although you are not directly liable for on-site accidents caused by subcontractors, such mishaps will cost you time and money. It’s therefore in your interest to vet the safety practices of your subcontractors as carefully as possible when building your team for a project.

The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) has been around for what seems like forever, protecting workers’ rights to a safe and accident-free workplace.

In this final part of our three-part series on confined spaces, we’re going to explore the actual entry process into a permit space, discuss what kind of post-entry activities that should be considered and how to keep good records of all entries.

In thefirst partof this three-part series on confined spaces we introduced you to some of the grim statistics for confined spaces, talked about the numerous standards and provided two tools to help make understanding the standards a bit easier.

Of all the activities a safety professional engages in, dealing with confined spaces can be one of the most stressful and challenging, especially for those who are new to the safety profession or those whose experiences in the field haven’t required much interaction with confined spaces. What most safety professionalsdoknow, regardless of experience level, is that when not managed properly, confined spaces can be deadly.