COC CLS - Healthy Safety Environment - NIKE, Inc. - The Journey

CONFINED SPACES PROTECTION
STANDARD
The contractor provides a safe, hygienic and healthy workplace setting and takes necessary steps to
prevent accidents and injury arising out of, linked with or occurring in the course of work or as result of
the operation of contractor’s facilities. The contractor has systems to detect, avoid and respond to
potential risks to the safety and health of all employees.
‣ Develop and implement processes and procedures to reduce or eliminate risk associated with
the entry into confined spaces.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Location Manager must ensure that confined space entry procedures are developed, implemented
and followed.
HSE Representative must establish, maintain and administer confined space entry processes and
procedures.
Managers and Supervisors must ensure that employees are trained and adhere to the requirements of
the confined space entry processes and procedures.
Employees must adhere to the requirements of the confined space entry processes and procedures.
DEFINITIONS
• Confined Space is any space that is large enough for an employee to enter, has limited means for
entry and exit and is not designed for continuous employee occupancy (e.g. manholes, sewers,
tunnels, boilers, storage tanks, pits).
REQUIREMENTS
O A permit required confined space has one or more of the following characteristics:
• A potential to contain a hazardous atmosphere;
• Material that can cause the engulfment of an employee;
• An internal configuration that might cause an employee to be trapped or
asphyxiated by inwardly converging walls or by a floor that slopes downward and
tapers to a smaller cross section; or
• Contains any other recognized serious health or safety hazard.
O A non-permit required confined space is a confined space that does not contain any hazard
capable of causing death or serious physical harm, and has no atmospheric hazard, nor the
potential for any atmospheric hazard.
1. RISK ASSESSMENT—Each facility must have a documented risk assessment performed for each
confined space, which includes as a minimum:
a. Identification of all confined spaces and their associated hazards.
b. Evaluation of the risk associated with each hazard.
c. Identification of control measures to reduce or eliminate the risk (e.g. entry procedures, personal
protective equipment, communication, training, etc.).
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