Permit to Work
Building genuine competence in issuing, authorising, and managing permits across every high-risk activity — not just filling in a form correctly.
What to expect
A full-day CPD session for supervisors, managers, and anyone with authority to issue or authorise permits for high-risk work. A permit-to-work system exists to make sure the right checks happen before dangerous work starts — hot work, electrical isolation, excavation, work at height — and that everyone involved knows exactly what's been done and what hasn't. This course builds the judgement behind the paperwork: knowing what a permit actually needs to control, not just how to fill one in.
- The main permit types — hot work, electrical isolation (lock-off/tag-off), excavation, work at height, and confined space entry
- The full permit lifecycle: issue, acceptance, work in progress, handback, and cancellation
- Roles and responsibilities — issuing authority, permit holder, and competent person, and where authority genuinely sits
- Isolation and lock-off principles that apply across permit types
- Managing overlapping or simultaneous permits, and interfaces between different contractors on site
- Auditing and reviewing your permit system so it stays a genuine control, not a formality
Built around your company, your values and your processes
Delivered using your own permit documentation and the specific high-risk activities your site actually carries out.
Who it's for
Supervisors, managers, and site staff responsible for issuing or authorising permits — particularly useful on multi-contractor sites where several permits and trades are active at once. Complements our Confined Spaces Permit Writer course, which goes deeper on that one specific permit type.