Permit to Work Awareness

A permit to work system ensures that formal validation and authority is given when hazardous work is to be undertaken. This course ensures all delegates are aware of the essential information outlined within health and safety legislation. Delegates will also look at how to write a suitable &sufficient permit and how to review other permits on site.  Also, how the permit system operates and responsibilities whilst working under the permit.

This training course is ideal for those in a position where they must use permit to work systems and ensures that delegates learn why permits to work are necessary and how to issue, manage, or terminate them.

Delegates will find out how to understand the permit to work standard, the definition of a permit to work and when they should be used, when authorisation is an appropriate form of control, how to complete a permit to work and when to accept a suitable set of RAMS.

The course includes:

• Hazard identification and risk assessment
• Isolations
• When to use an authorisation to work
• What is a permit to work?
• When to use a permit to work
• Types of permit to work
• Permits to work issuer
• Permit to work accepter
• Competent person
• Permit to work controls