This City & Guilds course aims to reflect the national occupational standard for controlling entry and arrangements in a confined space and covers water and non-water industry areas. 

Water: this may include working with potable water, sewage treatment processes, drain and sewer cleaning operations, where the operative is working in or near water or where a confined space is subject to surface water flooding.

Non-water: this may include pharmaceutical, petrochemical, asbestos removal, vehicle manufacture and servicing, aeronautical, construction, communications, power, utilities, gas, electrical and mechanical engineering and some elements of work operations in mines, quarries and tunnelling. 

This City and Guild’s course is endorsed by Energy and Utility Skills. 

The course is delivered through a combination of classroom-based tutorials and practical assignments. Delegates will be assessed through a mixture of theory and practical tests. 

Agenda:  

• Implementing procedures for teams working in high risk confined spaces 
• Controlling safe entry and exit to the high risk confined space 
• Monitoring the work team to ensure procedures are followed 
• Controlling emergency situations 
• Understanding health and safety and environmental legislation 
• Understanding standard protocols for working in high risk confined spaces 
• Understanding entry controller duties and responsibilities 
• Understanding equipment checks and testing required 
• Assessments – both practical and written 

This three-day course is for delegates who work or are preparing to work as an entry controller/top person. This is the person who controls the entry and arrangements for high risk confined spaces without entering them. It includes the duties of an entry controller, pre-entry procedures, entry into and exit from high risk confined spaces, maintaining communications and initiating and controlling emergency procedures. 

Due to the nature of confined space work and the emphasis placed on communication, there is only the provision for the practical and knowledge assessments to be undertaken in English. City and Guilds do not permit interpreters for this course.

Following successful completion of the course, delegates' results will be audited by a City & Guilds quality assurance process. On completion, a Level 3 Award in Control Entry and Arrangements for Confined Spaces (6160-04) certificate will be issued (please note the quality assurance process may take up to 12 weeks).