Confined Space Entry

Overview

The Confined Space Entry Program standardizes the requirements regarding the permit process, confined space training, and work practices to ensure safe entry into the confined space.


A Confined Space is defined as any area that is not intended for human occupancy, except to perform work, and that also has the potential to contain a dangerous atmosphere.

A Confined Space is

Examples of confined spaces include but are not limited to sewers, communication vaults, valve boxes, trenches, ducting and interstitial roofs, and floor spaces.

01

Constructed so that anyone who enters could be asphyxiated or trapped.

02

An area that has restricted means of entry and exit.

03

An area that may become hazardous to any person entering it owing to its design, construction, location, or atmosphere, its materials or substances, or any other conditions relating to it.

Confined Space Inventory

The inventory catalogs all the documented confined spaces on KAUST. The hazards have been assessed and documented for these spaces. The Confined Space Inventory list is updated periodically and when necessary.
Here is the link to the Confined Space Inventory list.

Confined Space Entry Program

Training Resources