Confined Space Awareness Training in Manitoba: Online Course
Confined Space Awareness, $34.95 CAD
A 40 to 50 minute online course that covers the confined space entry concepts that Manitoba WSH Regulation, Part 15 (sections 15.1 to 15.12) expects Manitoba workers to understand: what makes a space confined, atmospheric hazards and gas testing, isolation and ventilation, entry permits, the attendant role and rescue planning.
- Instant access after checkout, self-paced, works on any device
- Developed by CRSP-certified safety professionals
- Printable certificate of completion with verification code
- 30-day money-back guarantee
- Awareness level: pairs with your employer's site-specific procedure
What this course is (and is not)
It is awareness-level training: the shared knowledge every worker, supervisor and contractor needs before they are assigned a role in a permit-controlled entry. It covers the concepts in Manitoba WSH Regulation, Part 15 (sections 15.1 to 15.12) in plain language, with quizzes and a final assessment.
It is not an entrant, attendant or rescue qualification, a gas-detector competency, or a site-specific entry procedure. Manitoba does not issue a confined space licence. We do not claim the course meets or satisfies the regulation on its own; your employer pairs it with a written entry program, hands-on equipment training and supervision.
Buying for a crew? Corporate accounts let you assign seats and track completions. Need help writing the entry program or hazard assessment the regulation requires? Talk to a consultant.
What Manitoba Requires for Confined Space Entry
Workplace Safety and Health Regulation (Manitoba Regulation 217/2006), Part 15, Confined Spaces, sections 15.1 to 15.12, in plain language.
In Manitoba, confined space work is governed by Part 15, Confined Spaces, of the Workplace Safety and Health Regulation (Manitoba Regulation 217/2006), sections 15.1 to 15.12. The Part applies to every workplace where a person works in a confined space or a hazardous confined space, and it was substantially updated by Manitoba Regulation 128/2019.
Safe work procedures (section 15.2). The employer must develop and implement safe work procedures for working in confined spaces and hazardous confined spaces, train workers in those procedures, and ensure workers comply with them.
General requirements (section 15.3). Before requiring or permitting a worker to enter or work in any confined space, the employer must identify and assess the risks the worker is likely to face, and identify and take measures to reduce, control or eliminate them, including alternative ways of doing the work that avoid entry altogether and physical alterations to the space.
No unauthorized entry (section 15.4). The employer and the owner must take all reasonably practicable steps to keep anyone other than an authorized worker out of a confined space.
Hazardous confined spaces (sections 15.5 and 15.6). Before a worker enters a hazardous confined space, section 15.5 requires a full body harness and lifeline attached to a personal hoisting device unless an alternate safe method of access and egress exists, measures against drowning, engulfment and entrapment, and an entry permit system. Under section 15.6 the permit must be completed and signed by a competent person before entry and record the location, each worker entering and why, the valid dates and times, the work to be done and the procedures for entering, working in and leaving the space.
Permit review, standby worker and atmosphere (sections 15.7 to 15.10). The entry permit must be reviewed, a standby worker stationed outside the space, an unsafe atmosphere purged and ventilated, and personal protective equipment and other control measures provided.
Entry prohibited and emergency response (sections 15.11 and 15.12). Entry is prohibited in the conditions the Regulation lists, and an emergency response plan is required for hazardous confined spaces.
The Regulation is enforced by Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health; prevention resources come from SAFE Work Manitoba.
This summary is for awareness only and is not legal advice. Always read the current consolidated text on the official site linked above.
Who Needs Confined Space Awareness Training in Manitoba
Anyone who may enter, attend, supervise or work near tanks, vaults, manholes, pits, silos, vessels and other enclosed spaces, and the people who plan that work.
- Municipal water, wastewater and lift stations
- Agriculture, grain bins, silos and manure pits
- Food processing, meat packing and breweries
- Manufacturing, aerospace and metal fabrication
- Mining and mineral processing
- Construction, utilities and underground vaults
- Hydro, pipeline and compressor station contractors
- Building maintenance with boilers, pits and sumps
Also relevant for joint health and safety committee members, new and young workers, and contractors bidding on Manitoba industrial or municipal work who need documented awareness training before mobilizing.
Confined Space Awareness Training Manitoba FAQs
Is confined space training mandatory in Manitoba?
Section 15.2 of the Workplace Safety and Health Regulation requires the employer to develop safe work procedures for confined spaces and hazardous confined spaces, train workers in those procedures and ensure workers comply. The Regulation does not name a specific course. Employers meet the requirement by pairing general awareness training with instruction on their own procedures and entry permit system. This course supplies the awareness half.
Does this course give me a Manitoba confined space certificate?
There is no provincial confined space licence or ticket in Manitoba. This is an awareness-level course. On passing the final quiz you receive a printable certificate of completion with a verification code. Your employer still provides the site-specific procedures, equipment training and supervision that Part 15 requires.
What must a Manitoba confined space entry permit contain?
Section 15.6 requires an entry permit for a hazardous confined space to be completed and signed by a competent person before entry, and to record the location of the space, the name of each worker entering and the reason, the date and time during which the permit is valid, the work being done, and the safe work procedures for entering, being in and leaving the space. Section 15.7 requires the permit to be reviewed.
Does Manitoba require a harness and lifeline in a hazardous confined space?
Yes, subject to one exception. Section 15.5 requires a worker entering a hazardous confined space to wear a full body harness attached to a lifeline attached to a personal hoisting device, unless an alternate safe method of access and egress is provided from all accessible parts of the space. The section also requires measures against drowning, engulfment and entrapment.
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