Craig Schroll is a Certified Safety Professional and Certified Utility Safety Administrator. He has over 30 years experience in safety and loss control activities. Craig founded FIRECON in 1980 with the mission of helping clients prevent, plan for, and control emergencies. He may be contacted at Craig@FIRECON.com.
Everyone goes home in the same condition as when they responded. That’s the goal of first responder safety. It is a simple goal. Based upon results, though, it is not always easy to achieve.
Confined space training: Follow these 17 key steps
Training is critical to safe confined space entry operations. A well-trained crew can, to an extent, compensate for inadequacies in other areas of your confined space process. The reverse is not true — a poorly trained crew is in constant danger during entries even if the other components of your process are adequate.