All employees deserve the highest level of health and safety protection while they are carrying out their work activities. Permits to Work (PTW) are a formal, documented, systematic way to control certain activities that present a high level of risk. The permit forms an essential part of a safe system of work. Employers have a duty to ensure that PTW are in place when required, and employees have a duty to co-operate with the agreed terms and conditions of the permit. Via these sliders, know why Permit to work training is important!

1. PERMIT TO WORK
TRAINING
For communication between production
and maintenance teams from planning,
preparation, job execution to handover
and restoring the plant to normal
operations

2. ADDRESSING CONTRIBUTING
FACTORS CONCERNING PERMIT
TO WORK
Is staff sufficiently
informed, instructed,
trained and supervised to
minimize a potential
human failing during
operations of work permit
system?
Does work permit system
include sufficient safety
information, maintenance
instructions, correct PPE
and equipment for use?
Does work permit contain
sufficient information
about the type of work
required (includes
equipment removal,
excavation, hot/cold
work, repairing seals,
vessel entry, waste
disposal, isolation)?

3. ADDRESSING
CONTRIBUTORY
FACTORS
CONCERNING
PERMIT TO
WORK
Is the work permit system
managed, regularly inspected
and reviewed?
Are the employees
responsible for control of the
maintenance work identified
within the work permit
system and is the work
properly authorized by a
responsible person?
Are human factors such as
stress, fatigue, shift work,
attitude considered?

4. MAKING
TRAINING AND
COMPETENCE
CERTAIN
Essential to achieve quality
and consistency in the use of the permit-to-
work system – helps in successive levels of
training for involved personnel.
Provides the foundation for
effective implementation of the continued
participation of all relevant people boosts
understanding.
Undertaking
opportunities
to provide training
encourage good
practices and facilitate
harmonization of
permit-to-work
systems
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5. THE FULL PICTURE

6. KEY STEPS
Defining the
scope of Permit
to work System
Developing
Training
Programs
AUDIT, AUDIT,
AUDIT and Then,
AUDIT…
Understanding
competency of
Permit approvers
Managing Permit
audits daily
Becoming aware of the regulations,
it ensures that employees
understand duties and obligations in
accordance with law.

7. TRAINING –
THE PRIMARY INTENT
 Make sure that relevant people
become competent and sufficiently
involved in the permit-to-work
system
 Enable understanding of hazards
associated with the working
environment and the necessary
controls
 Drive awareness and increase
personal levels of risk perception to
influence behavior
 Communicate work site hazards and
risks through participation
 Allow industry-wide knowledge
sharing

8. ANSWERING QUESTIONS –
1. WHO BENEFITS FROM THE
TRAINING?
 Any industry that has a significant risk because of particular hazards.
 Any prime contractor who lets out or sub-contracts work
to others to do maintenance or other hazardous work.
 Organizations that have individual employees working in
isolated areas and performing non-routine work.
 All workers at every level of each organization involved in
the permit-to-work system
 New and transient personnel who may be required to
participate in permit activities during their time at site

9. ANSWERING QUESTIONS –
2. WHAT TO TRAIN?
 Principles of a permit-to-work system
 Reasons when permits are required
 An understanding of the types of permits,
supporting certificates and other documentation
(risk assessments and method statements)
 Responsibilities and competence requirements
for signatories or authorised people within the
permit-to-work system
 Responsibilities of permit users
 Lessons from incidents associated with permits-
to-work and findings from audit and review.

10. ANSWERING QUESTIONS –
3. WHERE TO TRAIN?
 A quiet area, on-site or at a suitable alternative location, to give a detailed
explanation of the permit-to-work process and the completion of documentation
 In a classroom, office, or in a variety of
environments that enables the training to
be practical in nature and chiefly focusses
on permit-to-work requirements, types of
documentation and hazard identification

11. ANSWERING QUESTIONS –
4. WHEN TO TRAIN?
 As part of an induction and prior to undertaking the work authorised under a permit-to-work
 Prior to becoming an authorised person for permit-to-work signatures
 Refresher training is required after revalidation of
individual competence
 After further assessment of competence based on
individual needs as required, e.g after a change in
the system or following a system audit.

12. ANSWERING QUESTIONS –
5. WHAT ARE THE WAYS TO
TRAIN?
A combination of common training approaches includes:
 Classroom presentations
 Animation videos
 Mentoring or coaching (e.g. on-the-job training)
 Distance learning
 Practical exercises
 E-learning (Computer-based training)

13. VIRTUAL
TRAINING
GLIMPSES

14. KEY TAKEAWAY
Permit to Work plays an essential role in
Control of Work (CoW) as a systematic
tool to control risk and prevent accidents
associated with non-routine, hazardous
work activities.
You can improve permit tracking and
compliance, to give workers better
insight into risks while enhancing
efficiency across the organizations.

15. THANK
YOU