Confined Space - do you or your employees enter a confined space?
Health & Safety is compiling a list of employees who may enter a confined space as part of their job duties here at UPEI. This list will be used to ensure that employees in confined spaces have received appropriate training and are following the Occupational Health & Safety Act and Regulations while in such spaces.
Please review the definition of confined space below. If you or any of your employees may enter a confined space while working for UPEI please email Kathryn Harrison (kharrison@upei.ca) their names.
Confined space is defined as an enclosed or partially enclosed space,
a) not designed or intended for human occupancy.
b) with restricted access or exit; and
c) that is or may become hazardous to a person entering it because of its design, construction, location, atmosphere or the materials or substances in it or other conditions, and includes any bin, tank, tanker, tunnel, silo, sewer, vault, chamber, pipeline, pit, vessel, vat and flue.
If you have any questions please contact Kathryn Harrison 902-566-0901 or Kevin Robinson 902-566-0516.