WAC 296-809-50002   Implement procedures for entry permits.  

     You must:

     • Identify and evaluate, before employees enter, potential hazards from:

     – The permit-required confined space; and

     – The work to be performed.

     • Complete an entry permit before entry is authorized, documenting that you have completed the means, procedures and practices necessary for safe entry and work.

     • Make sure that entrants or their representatives have an opportunity to observe any monitoring or testing, or any actions to eliminate or control hazards, performed to complete the permit.

     • Identify the entry supervisor.

     – Make sure the entry supervisor signs the entry permit, authorizing entry, before the space is entered.

     • Make the completed permit available to entrants or their authorized representatives at the time of entry.

     – Do this by either posting the completed permit at the entry location, or by any other equally effective means.

     • Make sure the duration of the permit does not exceed the time required to complete the assigned task or job identified on the permit.

     • Note any problems encountered during an entry operation on the permit. Use the information to make appropriate revisions to your program, entry operations, means, systems, procedures and practices.



[Statutory Authority: RCW 49.17.010, 49.17.040, 49.17.050, and 49.17.060. 04-03-081, § 296-809-50002, filed 1/20/04, effective 5/1/04.]