This document should be used to support the general requirements of
the Greencore Group Permit to Work 03.200.she
and the Confined Space Entry Permit 03.204.she.

These documents are intended to facilitate a "Safe System of Work"
where Entry into a Confined Space is necessary to complete the work activity.

What is a Confined Space (The Confined Spaces Regulations 1997)?

"Any place, including any chamber, tank, vat, silo, pit, trench, pipe, sewer, flu, well or other similar space in which, by virtue of its enclosed nature, there rises a reasonably foreseeable specified risk"

What is a Specified Risk?

• Serious injury to any person at work arising from a fire or explosion
• Without prejudice to (a) above;
  The loss of consciousness of any person at work
  arising from an increase in body temperature;
• The loss of consciousness or asphyxiation of any person at work
  arising from gas, fume, vapour or lack of oxygen
• the drowning of any person at work
  arising from an increase in the level of a liquid;
  or
• the asphyxiation of any person at work
  arising from a free flowing solid
  or the inability to reach a respirable environment
  due to entrapment by a free flowing solid