What to do

Any work in a confined space needs to:

• take place outside the confined space wherever possible;
• be fully planned and assessed by a competent person before any work starts, where the point above cannot be achieved;
• consider specified risks as listed above and in the pro-forma hyperlink below;
• specify a suitable safe system of work to cover all reasonably foreseeable eventualities;
• specify suitable emergency and rescue arrangements which consider both the rescuers as well as the persons being rescued; and
• specify minimum training requirements and ensure that all persons involved meet these.