Permit Responsibility
Plant managers are responsible for ensuring that sites comply with this guidance, and audit against it, as part of their basic site SHE improvement plan. Required resources necessary to achieve and maintain compliance are to be considered.
Plant Superintendents ensure that –
- Permit-to-work systems are in use, and their effectiveness periodically audited
- Individuals involved with the system have received adequate training
- Individuals authorized issuing and accept permits have been appointed
- ensuring permits are carried out according to the agreed upon procedures
- Only authorized individuals approve the permits-to-work.
- All affected personnel are adequately trained to identify permit required tasks and situations.
Permit Issuer ensures that-
- The persons doing the permitted work understand the hazards and have adequately addressed them.
- Those signing off on the permit are aware of the meaning of their signature.
- The procedure has been followed in its entirety.
