How do I know which permit a job needs?

Identify the dominant hazard — fire, atmosphere, stored energy, height, load, radiation — and the permit type follows from it. The trade doing the work does not decide: a fitter using a grinder needs a hot work permit.

What if a job has two hazards at once?

Two permits are raised and cross-referenced. Welding inside a vessel means a confined space entry permit and a hot work permit, each with its own signatures and its own checks.

Does this tool replace my site's permit schedule?

No. It gives what industry practice expects for the hazard. Your operator may name permits differently or require more. Where the two disagree, the site standard wins — and if the site standard is weaker than the standards named here, raise it.

Which permit do I need? Selector by job and country

Two clicks: what is being done, and under whose rules. The answer names the permit type, the people who have to sign it, and what must be proved before the signature.

What is being done?

Under whose rules?

Pick a job above and the answer appears here.

Read this before you rely on it. This tool gives the permit type that industry practice expects for the hazard. It does not replace your site's own permit schedule: the operator you work for may name permits differently, split them further, or require one where the law does not. When the two disagree, the site standard wins — and if the site standard is weaker than the standards named here, that is a finding worth raising.

Rustem Khusnutdinov — HSE engineer, permit-to-work systems

Which permit does the job need?
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Under whose rules?

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Which permit does the job need?Pick the work, pick where you are

What is being done?

Under whose rules?

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