Permit to work. A printable permit to work for contractors on an estate — hot work, electrical isolation, confined space, roof access and work that could disturb asbestos.
This is the paper version. FacilityOptix does the same job on a phone, with the record filed against the building and the asset automatically.
What is on the sheet
- Permit number, building, exact location, the work and who is doing it
- Permit type, so one form covers the common cases without pretending they are the same job
- Isolations made, by whom, and the record that they were restored
- Confirmation the asbestos register was consulted and issued before work started
- Precautions required, systems affected, and who else in the building has been told
- Validity with times rather than durations, and a hand-back block that closes the permit by name
Why this record matters
A permit on an estate does a job a permit on a construction site does not: it protects the people already in the building. The occupants are the reason detection gets isolated, the reason a riser cannot simply be closed off, and the reason somebody has to be told before the water goes off on a Thursday afternoon.
The asbestos line is on the permit rather than only on the approval checklist because the moment that matters is this one. A contractor approved six months ago, drilling a wall today, needs the register for this building in front of them now — and a permit is the last point at which anybody can ask.
Isolations are the recurring failure. A detection zone covered for hot work, a riser valve closed, a circuit locked off: each is a window in which the building is not what its own risk assessments assume, and a permit that records the isolation but not the restoration has documented the window and not its closing.
Times rather than durations, throughout. How long a permit may run and how long a fire watch continues after hot work is for whoever is competent to set it in that building, and a printed period on a free form becomes the period everybody uses.
Use it with
- Contractor approval checklistA printable checklist for approving a contractor onto an estate — insurance, accreditation, competence for the actual work, and what they have to produce before anybody sets foot on site.
- Asbestos register and management planA printable asbestos register and management plan pro-forma — what is known to be present or presumed, its condition, who has been told and what happens before any work starts.
- Work order formA printable work order — what was reported, what was actually found, what was done, what it needs next and the sign-off that closes it.
- Statutory compliance checklistA printable checklist of the statutory obligations attaching to a building — what applies, who holds it, when it was last satisfied and where the evidence is.
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