Working environments may be hazardous, unpredictable, subject to time pressure, chaotic and expose responders to risk, on land or water, by day or night. Workplace atmospheres may include visible and invisible hazards and hazardous surfaces. This course is suitable for use in the following situations:
- confined spaces
- enclosed and partially enclosed spaces
- hot work
- storage tanks, silos, pits, pipes, shafts, ducts, transport vehicles and ships
- testing as part of issuing a work permit • monitoring as part of working under a work permit
- open areas
- holding the gas tester by hand
- lowering the gas tester into a space, e.g. on a line.
Students will develop the skills and knowledge to test a working atmosphere in relation to planning and preparing to perform tasks; including accessing and interpreting safety and technical information for gas testing, correctly testing and monitoring gas, and maintaining personal protective equipment and gas testing equipment.