by rpweb | Oct 15, 2018 | Blog, Confined Space, Safety, Scott Burkart
Every company that has confined spaces on site needs to have a written plan: period. Whether it is a food production plant, manufacturing facility, construction site or just a simple warehouse, roles and responsibilities need to be established, a list of every...
by Scott Burkart | Aug 28, 2018 | Blog, Confined Space, Safety, Scott Burkart
As potentially dangerous as confined spaces are to the workers in them, in the case of a threatening situation, confined spaces are just as dangerous to rescue teams. Since 1993, two out of every three deaths in a confined space were by people who only entered the...
by Scott Burkart | Nov 20, 2017 | Blog, Confined Space, Safety, Scott Burkart
In July of 2017, a utility worker in Key Largo, Florida went into a manhole to investigate the cause of a bad smell. The worker quickly succumbed to the toxic fumes inside the manhole. The same happened to the utility worker who went in to save him. As did the worker...
