Confined Space Entry

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Experience Overview
- 12 minutes run time
- Student completion records
- VR training certificates
- Training results
- Behavioral metrics
- Response times
- Training groups
- Scheduling
- Set refresher training frequency
- Modelled from Unit of Competency: RIIWHS202E
Train your team to recognize confined space hazards, follow safety procedures, and carry out tasks without putting themselves or others at risk.
This immersive experience helps workers build real confidence in navigating high-risk, low-visibility environments like tanks, silos, and sewers. Through hands-on simulation, trainees learn how to apply critical safety practices before stepping foot into a confined space—making this ideal for both pre-site induction and compliance training.
Confined spaces are unforgiving; one mistake can lead to multiple casualties, often in seconds.
Participants enter a simulated compressor tank environment where they must:
- Identify confined space hazards such as poor ventilation, gas risks, and physical obstructions.
- Perform cleaning tasks while managing environmental stressors.
- Select and use appropriate PPE to protect against airborne and physical hazards.
- Execute Lock-Out Tag-Out (LOTO) procedures to isolate and secure equipment before entry.
This practical training goes beyond theory, building muscle memory for safe decision-making, hazard recognition, and emergency preparedness in confined spaces.
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Understand Documentation and Compliance Requirements:
- Identify and sign key documents: Permit to Work, Confined Space Entry Permit, and Job Safety Analysis (JSA).
- Recognize the legal and procedural significance of each document prior to entering a confined space.
Inspect and Test Equipment:
- Evaluate the condition of essential equipment including harness, gas detector, man down device, first aid kit, PPE, and communication tools.
- Perform operational tests on the gas detector (using a bump test) and man down device (inactivity trigger).
Apply Lockout-Tagout (LOTO) Procedures:
- Safely isolate energy sources (e.g., gas tanks and switchboards).
- Apply physical locks to prevent accidental activation of equipment during confined space entry.
Conduct Atmospheric Testing:
- Perform a “crack test” at the tank hatch and test atmospheric conditions at multiple vertical points (top, mid, bottom) before and during entry.
- Recognize safe gas levels (e.g. 20.9% oxygen, 0ppm H₂S and CO, 0% LEL).
Safely Enter and Work in a Confined Space:
- Maintain periodic gas testing during the cleaning task.
- Use appropriate equipment (e.g. hose) to complete the maintenance safely.
- Understand importance of checking above and below for gas accumulation.
Exit and Finalize the Job Safely:
- Remove LOTO devices.
- Sign off final documentation to indicate safe job completion.
- Review performance via the in-app results system.
A. Tutorial Phase
- Learner is introduced to the task and guided to sign key entry documentation.
- Orientation with the VR interface and tablet tool.
B. Discovery Phase
- Multiple-choice quizzes cover foundational knowledge
- Frequency of gas testing
- Purpose of man down devices
- Understanding the crack test
C. Practice Phase
- Equipment sorting and inspection exercise.
- Learner must correctly assess equipment status and perform bump tests.
D. Task Execution (Instructional Phase)
- Full simulation of confined space entry
- Lockout-tagout
- Atmospheric testing
- Safe entry and task completion (cleaning)
- Monitoring and hazard awareness throughout the job
E. Exam Phase
- Assessment of learner’s ability
- Identify faulty equipment
- Follow correct entry and cleaning procedures without guidance
- Exit, remove controls, and sign off
F. Results and Feedback
- Tablet-based feedback highlights correct/incorrect actions.
- Reinforces safety standards and areas for improvement.
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CONTACT USWhat is Custom VR Builds?
It’s a service where Next World creates a fully tailored VR-training solution for your company — a custom course built to meet your industry-specific requirements rather than using a generic off-the-shelf VR module.
How does the custom-build process work?
The process typically follows these phases: you provide training documentation, subject-matter experts get involved, learning outcomes are identified, storyboard is created, virtual assets are modeled, testing and quality assurance, and finally deployment in your environment.
What type of training scenarios can be built?
You can build VR scenarios for hazard awareness, safe-practice with tools and equipment, practicing safety procedures step-by-step, and even testing learner’s knowledge in simulated hazardous situations — as if in real life but safe.
Is custom VR suitable for refresher training as well?
Yes — custom VR builds can be used for refresher/training-update courses to efficiently refresh skills and knowledge without re-arranging real equipment or putting people at risk.
What learning methodology does custom VR follow?
Next World suggests a blended approach: combining face-to-face, practical and immersive training methods, which helps improve retention, practical competence, and reduces incidents.