This City & Guilds course aims to reflect the national occupational standard for high risk-related confined space and controlling entry and arrangements in a confined space. The course covers both 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:  

• Preparing to work safely in high risk confined spaces 
• Safely entering and exiting high risk confined spaces 
• Equipment and tools, including pre and after use checks and testing (gas detectors, escape sets and breathing apparatus) 
• Safe systems of work 
• Dealing with and control emergencies 
• Understanding the principles of working in high risk confined spaces 
• Understanding standard protocols for working in high risk confined spaces 
• 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 
• Understanding health and safety and environmental legislation 
• Understanding entry controller duties and responsibilities 
• Assessments – both practical and written  

This four-day course is suitable for anyone who works or is preparing to work in a high risk environment, as well as an entry controller/top person. It includes preparing to work safely, entering and exiting high risk confined spaces safely, using equipment and tools safely, as well as the duties of an entry controller, pre-entry procedures, maintaining communications and dealing with/initiating and controlling emergency procedures. 

Delegates participating in this course must be a minimum age of 18, clean-shaven, medically fit to wear a breathing apparatus and able to enter a confined space. Delegates who arrive with facial hair will not be accepted onto the course. Delegates should generally not have problems with eyesight or hearing, heart disease, high blood pressure, epilepsy, fear of heights / confined spaces, vertigo, giddiness/difficulty with balance, impaired limb function, alcohol or drug dependence or psychiatric illness.

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.

All courses will be delivered using the Hooded Style Escape Set (CF10/Cf15). If you require training on a “Mask Style Escape Set (PP10/PP15), please notify the training team in advance. 

Following successful completion of the course, delegates’ results will be audited by a City & Guilds quality assurance process. On completion, both a Level 2 Award in Working in High Risk Confined Spaces (6160-03) certificate and 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).