Certificate in Confined Spaces & Gas Testing with Rescue

What Our Confined Spaces Course Will Teach You:

  • Knowledge and awareness of hazards within confined spaces
  • How to ensure that you can set up and work within a confined space safely, and become an asset to a working team, both in and around confined spaces
  • To fully understand the differences between Gas Testing, and Gas Monitoring
  • Among the hazards that are covered in depth include:
  • Confined space restrictions, and their effect on patient recovery in the event of an incident
  • Methods of entry and exit into confined spaces
  • Types of gases that can be found in common Confined Spaces (eg sewers, tanks, silos, trenches)
  • Hazards associated with Gas Testing over Gas Monitoring
  • Suspension Trauma, and its effects on the human body
  • Duties of Safety Personal, and the risks associated with these tasks
  • Isolation of Confined Space Hazards (lockout methods) vs Minimisation (use of PPE and Breathing Apparatus)

On successful completion of the programme, you will be awarded: Certificate in Confined Spaces & Gas Testing with Rescue


Credits/Levels:

Demonstrate Knowledge of Hazards Associated with Confined Spaces

NZQA Code: 18426. 3 credits level 3

Plan a Confined Space Entry

NZQA Code: 17599. 4 credits level 5


Pre-requisites:

None. Open entry


Course Location: Our training facility, 12 York Avenue, Mount Maunganui

Course Duration: 2 Days (8.00am to 5:00pm)

Course Cost: Enquire to find out! + cost of NZQA credit reporting (if required)

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Confined Spaces (Refresher)

Certificate Awarded: Certificate in Confined Spaces & Gas Testing with Rescue


Credits/Levels:

Demonstrate Knowledge of Hazards Associated with Confined Spaces

NZQA Code: 18426. 3 credits level 3

Total NZQA unit standard credits: 3 credits at level 3

Pre-requisites:

Previous completion of unit standards 18426 and 17599

Course Location: Our training facility, 12 York Avenue, Mount Maunganui


Course Duration:

1 Day (8.00am to 5:00pm)

Course Cost: Enquire to find out!


Additional Standards (an additional fee may be charged to register these Unit Standards)

NZQA Code: 25510

Operate Gas Testing Device to Determine a Suitable Atmosphere Exists to Work Safely

NZQA Code: 25044

Wear and Operate Compressed Air Breathing Apparatus (BA) in the Workplace

NZQA Code: 17590

Issue Worksite Specific Work Permits

(this Unit Standard requires the person to supply evidence of several Confined Space entries that they have been involved in both the planning and the conduct of the work)