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This course is designed for personnel who need a functional understanding of confined and restricted space operations. It is essential for those responsible for supervising, managing, or providing critical safety oversight for teams entering and working in high-risk environments.

This competency-based industry program provides the essential framework for managing confined space safety.

 The curriculum addresses critical legislative requirements, including:

Risk Management: Identification of confined spaces, comprehensive risk assessment, and human factors.

Operational Control: Permit systems, atmospheric testing, and formal reporting procedures.

Safety & Response: Rescue planning, PPE selection, and rigorous equipment maintenance.


Tailored for Your Operations

We believe training is most effective when it reflects your operational reality. This course can be fully contextualized to your company’s specific operational requirements. Any practical scenarios are individually tailored to your site’s unique challenges to ensure optimum learning outcomes and real-world readiness.


Compliance & Duty of Care

This course assists PCBUs and principal contractors in fulfilling their general duty of care under Commonwealth and State/Territory legislation. By providing documented evidence of competency based training, you will ensure that relevant personnel required to supervise or manage work in restricted access spaces have received sufficient information, instruction, and training.


All skills are taught and assessed in strict accordance with:

  • Current WHS/OHS Legislation & Guidance
  • AS/NZS Standards
  • Relevant Industry Codes of Practice

Units Delivered

The following units will be included in your certificate:

P00689 - Managing Confined and restricted space operations

Course Delivery

This course can be delivered/assessed in the workplace or at facility organised by the training provider.

Course Durations

Course durations can vary for multiple reasons, so the durations below are the minimum possible amount.

Face-to-Face face-to-face contact time of at least 4 Hours

To join this course you must:

  • Bring and wear your own protective footwear and PPE, clothing for any practical sessions and assessments.
  • Have sufficient English reading, writing, and speaking skills to follow permits, complete workplace forms, and explain or discuss issues. Basic maths is also needed to understand measurements like pressure, temperature, or gas test results.

Safe Work Australia warns that confined space work can be tougher than normal tasks, requiring workers to be physically fit, free of issues like severe claustrophobia, and able to wear necessary PPE such as respirators.

Managers of these workers should have sufficient experience to evaluate Confined Space entry workers and those undertaking attendant roles such as Gas tester,  Standby person or Rescue/First Aid Person for fitness for task.

This certificate has an industry recommended renewal period of 180 months

Performance Tasks – Manage Confined Space and/or Restricted access space entry 

Observation checklists for,


  1. Legislative Compliance: Identifying and applying relevant WHS/OHS Acts, Regulations, and Industry Codes of Practice.  

  2. Space Categorization: Accurately identifying confined vs. restricted access spaces under AS 2865 criteria.

  3. Risk Management: Conducting and documenting comprehensive risk assessments for hazardous atmospheres and engulfment.  

  4. Atmospheric Monitoring: Interpreting gas detector readings and verifying oxygen/contaminant levels for safe entry.  

  5. Permit-to-Work Systems: Correctly issuing, monitoring, and closing confined space entry permits. 

  6. Hierarchy of Control: Implementing primary safety controls including isolation, lockout/tagout (LOTO), and ventilation.

  7. Emergency & Rescue Planning: Developing and validating site-specific rescue procedures and resource requirements.

  8. Operational Oversight: Managing human factors, PPE compliance, and the legal duties of "Stand-by" and "Attendant" roles.



     Documentation – The student must complete all documentation according to the nominated standard: 

1. Issue and review a CS entry permit



Other evidence collection – Heightsafe Solutions trainer / assessor will complete an observation checklist detailing the required performance outcome for each student. We collect video and picture evidence of task completions which are stored securely with the training records of that session. Please let us know beforehand if there may be security or personal issues with us collecting this type of evidence.

This course does not lead to a nationally recognised certificate