How effective is your Permit-To-Work process? Do work permits include relevant P&ID’s to show all required Isolations in the Field, are LO/TO and Try exercised? Is Job Safety Analysis part of the process? Does the current practice take way too long to issue and close out Permits?

Work Permits are part of an everyday activity at plants across the world. These do not have to be complicated but they need to be effective and more importantly safe guards to prevent incidents during maintenance work including inadvertent start-up of equipment when people are performing maintenance.

The Safe Work Practice (SWP) Mgr software converts your paper work permits into Digital Work Permits with built-in risk assessment and isolation management. Relevant P&ID’s are visible to the issuer and can pin-point the isolation point effectively and efficiently, this is then printed and handed over the job executer to install the appropriate isolations in accordance with the Work Permit.

Records are also kept for quality control, training and incident investigations where applicable. Not all work will require the same work permits, some jobs require a more rigorous effort than others and to that end; this software allows the appropriate effort to be allocated as required.

The software ensures relevant risk assessments are conducted, employee compliance, easy and fast auditing in the field, correct barriers and controls are implemented in the field prior to starting the work, optimize planning and reduce indirect productive hours, increase workforce utilization.

Life critical activity deserves everyone’s undivided attention, compliment this commitment with software that streamlines the process and helps operations and maintenance work hand in hand with safety. The software automatically reports this data into the electronic PSM wheel where key performance indicators from this element are updated in real time automatically. SHUP, Inc. is committed to helping each and every user how to utilize the system.