Online Training
Confined Spaces Safety
This Confined Space Safety course provides an in-depth overview of safe work practices, roles, and responsibilities for working in confined spaces under Canadian Occupational Health and Safety Regulations. By the end of the course, participants will be able to define a confined space, identify associated hazards, apply appropriate controls, and understand their roles in maintaining safety and compliance during confined space entry.
What You'll Learn
- Introduction to Confined Spaces
- Definition and characteristics of confined spaces
- Canadian regulatory framework and jurisdictional differences
- The Confined Space Team
- Roles and responsibilities of the employer, entrant, attendant, and entry supervisor
- Before Entry
- Pre-entry procedures
- Confined space permits, hazard identification, and atmospheric testing
- Working in a Confined Space
- Safe entry practices
- Communication, PPE use, and monitoring for distress
- Hazards and Hazard Controls
- Common hazards (toxic gases, oxygen deficiency, engulfment, etc.)
- Hierarchy of controls, administrative measures, and PPE requirements
- Emergency Response and Rescue
- Self-rescue, non-entry rescue, and entry rescue procedures
About This Course
Every year, workers across Canada are seriously injured or killed while working in confined spaces. These environments may look harmless from the outside, but they can hide deadly hazards such as oxygen deficiency, toxic gases, or engulfment risks. Understanding these dangers—and knowing how to control them—is critical for anyone who works in or around confined spaces. This online Confined Space Safety course provides a comprehensive overview of safe work practices, responsibilities, and emergency procedures for confined space entry as outlined in the Canadian Occupational Health and Safety Regulations.
Participants will learn how to identify a confined space, recognize the hazards present, and apply appropriate control measures before and during entry. The course also highlights the importance of communication, teamwork, and preparation—key factors that save lives during confined space operations. Learners will explore the specific roles and duties of each team member involved in confined space work, including the employer, entry supervisor, attendant, and entrant. The course also explains how to complete and use a confined space entry permit, perform atmospheric testing, and select proper personal protective equipment (PPE).
Finally, the course emphasizes emergency preparedness by covering self-rescue, non-entry rescue, and entry rescue procedures. By the end, participants will understand how to stay compliant and build a culture of safety and accountability on every confined space job.
Course Requirements
- Estimated Duration
- Approximately 1 hour
- Pass Requirements
- A mark of 80% must be achieved in order to pass this course. Participants are able to be repeat the test three times in efforts to achieve the pass mark.
- Certificate
- Upon successful completion of this online course, a certificate of completion will be available for download and printing.
- Registration Fee
- $99.99 CAD
Frequently asked questions about online training
Common questions about enrollment, completion, and certificates.
What are the benefits of online training?
Benefits of online training include:
- Cost effective: no hotels, travel, meals and less time away from the workplace.
- Convenient: courses can be completed wherever you have access to a computer and internet access.
- Self paced: students can pause at any time and continue where they left off.
- Consistent: video/slide format ensures the course is the same every time.
- Easy verification: online access to training and certification records for students and managers.
Which online training courses does Safe + Sound offer?
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What is BIS Safety Software Inc.?
BIS Safety Software Inc. is a network of more than 200 leading safety training companies from across North America who collectively share and provide companies and individuals with access to a wide variety of safety training courses through one centralized online application.
Since 2010, the collaborative partnership between these training companies has not only enabled the best-of-the-best in online safety training to be brought together in one location but it is also helping to improve industry safety performance through the provision of convenient, cost-effective training.
Our partners BIS Safety Software Inc. are, in our opinion, the best providers of online safety training courses in Canada. We’ve been working with BIS since March 2012 and we are completely happy with the service they provide.
It might be that your first aid certification hasn’t yet expired but you don't feel confident in your skills and would like a refresher or you maybe you need to do a WHMIS course or H2S. Whether you're looking for Confined Space Entry, Firefighting, Ground Disturbance, Fall Protection, Safe Slinging and Rigging, First Aid, Transportation of Dangerous Goods, WHMIS, Wilderness Awareness, or many other safety courses, you will likely find them in our Online Course Library.
Is there a time limit for online courses?
Everyone learns at a different pace and everyone retains information differently. When you take a course online, you go at your own speed. If you get to a certain point and don’t fully understand the material, you can pause and go back for a review. On the other hand, if everything makes perfect sense, you can go straight through the entire course right to the test.
How does virtual proctoring/testing with webcam monitoring work?
When you start your test, you will be monitored via your webcam. If you disappear from the screen or appear to be consulting another device or other material, you will be disqualified from the course. The company responsible for virtual proctoring is Integrity Advocate. You can find out more about how their system works here.
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Please ensure your specific jurisdiction and workplace accepts online safety training and allows online training for your use.
Safe+Sound First Aid Training Ltd is not involved in course development and all online courses are sold and delivered in partnership with BIS Safety Software and approved and/or endorsed agencies.