PERMIT TO WORK - Issue Work Permits inc Local Risk Control
Introduction:
Baseline Training's Permit to Work – Issue Work Permits Including Local Risk Control course combines:
RIIRIS201E – Conduct local risk control
MSMPER300 – Issue work permits
The course is designed for personnel responsible for assessing workplace risks and issuing permits for work activities where hazards exist or specific controls and procedures are required.
Participants develop practical skills in hazard identification, risk assessment, selecting and implementing risk controls, determining permit requirements, preparing the worksite, issuing and authorising permits, monitoring work and closing permits when work has been safely completed.
The training can be contextualised to workplace permit systems and may include permits for hot work, confined space, working at heights, excavation, electrical work, isolation and other high-risk activities.
Upcoming Workshops
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This course is suitable for personnel who are required to assess workplace risks or issue and manage work permits, including:
- Permit Issuers and Permit Officers
- Supervisors and Team Leaders
- Maintenance and Operations personnel
- Safety and Emergency Response personnel
- Personnel working in mining, resources, construction, manufacturing, utilities and industrial environments.
Entry Requirements
Participants undertaking MSMPER300 – Issue work permits must hold the prerequisite unit:
MSMWHS201 – Conduct hazard analysis
Participants should also have sufficient workplace experience and language, literacy and numeracy skills to interpret workplace procedures, assess hazards and risks, complete permit documentation and communicate permit requirements.
Where RIIRIS201E – Conduct local risk control is included in the program, participants will also complete the required practical risk assessment activities.
- Develop skills to identify hazards, assess risks and implement appropriate controls.
- Understand the responsibilities and requirements of a workplace Permit to Work system.
- Build capability to correctly prepare, authorise, issue, monitor and close work permits.
- improve workplace safety by ensuring high-risk work is undertaken under appropriate controls and authorisation.
Training is delivered through a combination of instructor-led theory, workplace examples, group activities, risk assessment exercises and practical permit scenarios.
Participants will complete practical activities involving hazard identification, risk assessment, preparation and issue of work permits and monitoring of work performed under permit conditions.
Where delivered onsite, training may be contextualised to the client's Permit to Work procedures, permit documentation, risk management processes and operational environment
- Identify workplace hazards, assess risk and determine appropriate risk control measures.
- Determine when a work permit is required and select the appropriate permit for the activity.
- Prepare, authorise and issue work permits in accordance with workplace procedures.
- Monitor work conducted under a permit and safely suspend, revalidate or close permits as required.
- Hazard Identification and Local Risk Control - Identifying hazards, assessing likelihood and consequence, determining unacceptable risk and implementing appropriate controls.
- Permit to Work Systems - Permit types, roles and responsibilities, legislative and workplace requirements and determining when permits are required.
- Issuing and Monitoring Work Permits - Preparing the worksite, confirming controls and isolations, completing permit documentation, authorising work and monitoring compliance.
- Permit Completion and Close-Out - Managing changing conditions, permit suspension and revalidation, shift handover, worksite inspection and closing permits following completion of work.
