Michael Millward, a thermal engineer for SSI, recently attended a confined space training course with PASS and was full of praise for the facilities, the quality of training and the overall experience provided.
A man has been killed after suffering severe third-degree burns after the environment inside a methane gas dome he was working in ignited, causing an explosion.
A care home in North Hull has been given a £2500 fine after it failed to submit information about Legionella found in water samples taken from the property.
After contracting Legionnaire’s disease, a particularly deadly strain of pneumonia, a grandmother is trying to raise awareness of the disease which can be contracted from something as simple as a common bag of garden compost.
A rock collapse in a South African mine has killed eight workers, with a ninth missing and assumed to be trapped within the mine.
An electrical business in Sibley, Iowa has been fined by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) after an arc flash explosion sent five of their workers to the hospital.
Due to the nature of a ship, confined spaces are part of the daily lives for those who work within. Learning to take the correct precautions, using the right equipment and receiving the correct training within these areas is essential for seafaring personnel to ensure their safety at all times.
Even in a large, open-air area such as a quarry, the dangers of confined spaces still exist. Despite the fact that you’d think there was unlikely to be confined spaces in these environments, confined spaces are often located within equipment, below ground and in other applications with a quarry.
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