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Permit-Required Confined Spaces

This suborder establishes the safety requirements for identifying, evaluating, and entering permit-required confined spaces (pits, manholes, equipment/reactors that personnel may enter and work in, spaces below floor tile someone may enter, etc.) and the organizational roles and responsibilities for ensuring that those requirements are met.
Created April 2, 2014, Updated August 11, 2022