We will look at what you, as a contractor, need to do to integrate your work procedures with each client's program. Before you allow crews to work in a host employers permit spaces you must:

• Obtain any available information on permit space hazards and procedures used by the employer for safe entry.
• Coordinate entry operations so that the activities of your work crews do not endanger other crews who may be working in or around the permit space.
• Ensure that both you and the host employer understand which permit program and entry procedures you will be using. Some employers will require you to comply with their entry procedures, but others may not. Some, for example, never send their employees into permit spaces (they contract the work).

• Inform you that the work involves entry into permit spaces and that entry requires workers to follow the procedures outlined in a written permit program.
• Inform you of the hazards that make the space a permit space.
• Inform you of the precautions and procedures used to manage these hazards.
• Coordinate entry operations so that one work crew does not endanger another.
• Debrief the contractor at the end of the entry to ensure that no hazards were created or observed and the control measures specified by the program were adequate.

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