By the end
What you'll build
- Explain what a permit controls that a risk assessment alone does not
- Identify which jobs on your site require a permit and which permit type applies
- Read a permit and state its scope, limits, controls and expiry before work starts
- Describe the isolation and energy-control steps a permit depends on and how they are proven
- Recognise scope creep and explain the correct action when a job grows beyond its permit
- Describe correct suspension, handover and close-out of a permit
Curriculum
What's inside
6 modules · 35 lessons
- 01
What a Permit Is For
6 lessons- The Permit as a Controlled Conversation, Not a Form
- Permit, Risk Assessment and Procedure Compared
- Which Jobs Require a Permit
- Permit Types and Where They Overlap
- The Cost of Treating Permits as Paperwork
- + 1 more lesson
- 02
Roles in the Permit System
6 lessons- Issuer, Holder and Acceptor: Who Owns What
- Area Authority and Site Control
- Contractors Working Under a Host Permit
- Handover Between Shifts
- Escalating When Roles Are Unclear
- + 1 more lesson
- 03
Isolation and Energy Control
6 lessons- Proving Zero Energy Before Work Begins
- Identifying Every Energy Source Feeding the Job
- Locks, Tags and Personal Danger Devices
- Stored Energy: Pressure, Gravity, Springs and Charge
- Group Isolation and Isolation Registers
- + 1 more lesson
- 04
Living Permits
6 lessons- Suspending a Permit When Conditions Change
- Scope Creep and the Job That Grew
- Time Limits, Breaks and Expiry
- Simultaneous Operations Under Multiple Permits
- Gas Testing and Re-Testing Regimes
- + 1 more lesson
- 05
Closing Out
6 lessons- Closing a Permit and Handing the Area Back
- Reinstatement and Housekeeping Checks
- De-Isolation in the Correct Order
- Records, Audits and Permit Reviews
- Learning from Permit Breaches
- + 1 more lesson
- 06
Practice and check
5 lessons- Permit language, plainlymatch pairs
- Getting to a proven zero-energy statesequence order
- Permits, locks and hand-backsfill blank
- Forty minutes to shift endscenario
- Course quizquiz
The shape of it
How this course works
Short lessons
35 lessons across 6 modules, each small enough to finish in one sitting.
Practice as you go
Every lesson ends with a small space for what you noticed — the doing is the learning.
Progress you can see
Your progress is saved lesson by lesson, ready whenever you come back.
Ready when you are.
Make an account and this course opens up — your progress is saved from the very first lesson.