Text For Citation: 01 Item/Group: 001B Hazard:

29 CFR 1910.146(d)(3): Under the permit-required confined space program required by 29 CFR 1910.146(c)(4), the employer did not develop and implement the means, procedures, and practices necessary for safe permit space entry operations, including, but not limited to items (d)(3)(i) through (d)(3)(vi) of this paragraph: The employer is failing to develop and implement the means, procedures, and practices necessary for safe permit space entry operations into sewer manholes as follows: a. Failing to specify acceptable entry conditions as required by item (d)(3)(i); b. Failing to provide each authorized entrant with the opportunity to observe monitoring or testing of permit spaces as required by item (d)(3)(ii); c. Failing to ventilate the permit space as necessary to eliminate or control atmospheric hazards as required by item (d)(3)(iv); d. Failing to provide pedestrian, vehicle, or other barriers as necessary to protect entrants from external hazards as required by item (d)(3)(v); e. Failing to verify that conditions in the permit space are acceptable for entry throughout the duration of an authorized entry as required by (d)(3)(vi).