Confined Space Rescue Awareness
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
OSHA 1910.146 - CORRECT ANSWER - Permit required confined spaces
Contains requirements for practices and procedures to protect employees in general industry
from hazards of entry into confined spaces
Other relevant standards - CORRECT ANSWER - Lockout Tagout
NFPA 1983: Standard on Life Safety Ropeand System components
ANSI standard
What is a confined space? - CORRECT ANSWER - Large enough and so configured that a
person can bodily enter and perform work, has limited or restricted means for entry/exit, not
designed for continuous human occupancy
Confined space cont'd - CORRECT ANSWER - Contains a known hazardous atmosphere,
internal configuration such that a person could become trapped, contains any other recognized
serious hazards
Examples of confined spaces - CORRECT ANSWER - Storage tanks, underground utility
tunnels, storage bins/vats/hoppers, manholes/sewers/drains, cable vaults, digesters/sludge pits,
holds of ships, silos, pipelines, boilers, trenches
Permit-required confined space: - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Contains or has potential to
contain a hazardous atmosphere
2. Contains a material that as the potential for engulfing an entrant
3. Has an internal configuration such that an entrant could be trapped or asphyxiated by inwardly
converging walls or by a floor which slopes downward and tapers into a smaller cross-sections
, What is an entry permit? - CORRECT ANSWER - Written or printed document that is
provided by the employer to allow and control entry into a permit space and that contains infer
about the space itself and the hazards inside said space
Is an accident a true accident or? - CORRECT ANSWER - Failure to prepare properly
What is a Hot Work Permit? - CORRECT ANSWER - Employers written authorization to
perform operations (i.e., riveting, welding, cutting, burning, heating) capable of providing a
source of ignition
What is an emergency with confined space? - CORRECT ANSWER - Means by any
occurrence (including any failure of hazard control or monitoring equipment) or event internal or
external to the permit space that could endanger entrants (i.e., any failure with equipment)
What is entry in confined space? - CORRECT ANSWER - The action by which a person
passes through an opening into a permit-required confined space. Entry includes ensuing work
activities in that space AND IS CONSIDERED TO HAVE OCCURRED AS SOON AS ANY
PART OF THE BODY BREAKS THE PLANE OF AN OPENING INTO THE SPACE
What is an attendant in confined space? - CORRECT ANSWER - Individual stationed
outside one or more permit spaces who monitors the authorized entrants and who performs all
attendants assigned in the employers permit space program
(can also be backup)
What is a dead man hook? - CORRECT ANSWER - Hook onto back of collar to pull
person out of confined space
What is an authorized entrant? - CORRECT ANSWER - Someone who has been through
the proper confined space training to enter a permit confined space
According to OSHA what is the leading cause of death in confide spaces? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Asphyxiation
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
OSHA 1910.146 - CORRECT ANSWER - Permit required confined spaces
Contains requirements for practices and procedures to protect employees in general industry
from hazards of entry into confined spaces
Other relevant standards - CORRECT ANSWER - Lockout Tagout
NFPA 1983: Standard on Life Safety Ropeand System components
ANSI standard
What is a confined space? - CORRECT ANSWER - Large enough and so configured that a
person can bodily enter and perform work, has limited or restricted means for entry/exit, not
designed for continuous human occupancy
Confined space cont'd - CORRECT ANSWER - Contains a known hazardous atmosphere,
internal configuration such that a person could become trapped, contains any other recognized
serious hazards
Examples of confined spaces - CORRECT ANSWER - Storage tanks, underground utility
tunnels, storage bins/vats/hoppers, manholes/sewers/drains, cable vaults, digesters/sludge pits,
holds of ships, silos, pipelines, boilers, trenches
Permit-required confined space: - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Contains or has potential to
contain a hazardous atmosphere
2. Contains a material that as the potential for engulfing an entrant
3. Has an internal configuration such that an entrant could be trapped or asphyxiated by inwardly
converging walls or by a floor which slopes downward and tapers into a smaller cross-sections
, What is an entry permit? - CORRECT ANSWER - Written or printed document that is
provided by the employer to allow and control entry into a permit space and that contains infer
about the space itself and the hazards inside said space
Is an accident a true accident or? - CORRECT ANSWER - Failure to prepare properly
What is a Hot Work Permit? - CORRECT ANSWER - Employers written authorization to
perform operations (i.e., riveting, welding, cutting, burning, heating) capable of providing a
source of ignition
What is an emergency with confined space? - CORRECT ANSWER - Means by any
occurrence (including any failure of hazard control or monitoring equipment) or event internal or
external to the permit space that could endanger entrants (i.e., any failure with equipment)
What is entry in confined space? - CORRECT ANSWER - The action by which a person
passes through an opening into a permit-required confined space. Entry includes ensuing work
activities in that space AND IS CONSIDERED TO HAVE OCCURRED AS SOON AS ANY
PART OF THE BODY BREAKS THE PLANE OF AN OPENING INTO THE SPACE
What is an attendant in confined space? - CORRECT ANSWER - Individual stationed
outside one or more permit spaces who monitors the authorized entrants and who performs all
attendants assigned in the employers permit space program
(can also be backup)
What is a dead man hook? - CORRECT ANSWER - Hook onto back of collar to pull
person out of confined space
What is an authorized entrant? - CORRECT ANSWER - Someone who has been through
the proper confined space training to enter a permit confined space
According to OSHA what is the leading cause of death in confide spaces? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Asphyxiation
