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29 CFR 1926.1204(c): Each entry employer must (c) Develop and implement the means, procedures, and practices necessary for safe permit space entry operations, including, but not limited to, the following:(1) Specifying acceptable entry conditions; (2) Providing each authorized entrant or that employee's authorized representative with the opportunity to observe any monitoring or testing of permit spaces;(3) Isolating the permit space and physical hazard(s) within the space; and(4) Purging, inerting, flushing, or ventilating the permit space as necessary to eliminate or control atmospheric hazards: On or about 05/17/2016, at 3600 Dick Taylor Street, Monroe, LA, employees were conducting sewer repairs in a sewer manhole and the employer failed to develop and implement the practices for safe permit space entry which included monitoring for oxygen content, for flammable gases and vapors, and for potential toxic air contaminants prior to employee entry into the sewer and continuously or periodically thereafter.