Permits to work that cannot quietly stay open
A permit is a promise that the controls are in place before the job starts. The risk is not issuing one. It is the permit that expired three hours ago and nobody closed.
Why paper permits leak
A pad of permits in a site office relies on people remembering to check the conditions, to note the expiry, and to close it out when the work stops. On a busy day, one of those slips. The permit stays open in theory while the job finished hours ago, and the record is a smudged carbon copy in a drawer.
For high-risk work, that gap is exactly what an auditor or an investigator goes looking for.
How Certify tightens it
Each permit type carries its own checks. Hot works asks about fire watch and extinguishers. Confined space asks about gas testing and a standby person. If a required control is missing, the permit will not issue. Issue and close are both signed, and an expiry that passes raises a flag rather than going quiet.
"On site, the dangerous permit is the one everyone forgot was still open. So we built the system to refuse to let that happen quietly."
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Hot works permit form with condition checks and expiry
Permit types teams set up
- Permit to work
- Hot works
- Confined space
- Excavation
- Isolation / LOTO
- Working at height
The life of a permit
The crew requests a permit for the job. The form asks only what that permit type needs.
Conditions and isolations are confirmed. Missing controls block the permit from issuing.
An authorised person signs it off. The permit is live, with a clear expiry.
When the job is done the permit is closed and signed. An expired permit cannot sit open unnoticed.
High-risk work, low-drama records
A permit you can trust at a glance, and prove after the fact.