Permit to work systems in Ireland are designed to identify where a work permit is needed and regulate high risk work and maintenance work to ensure safety. Read on for more information: permit to work training everything you need to know.

What is a Permit to Work Training (PTW) and why is it important in Ireland?

Permit to work training or permit to work systems enable workers to identify situations in which a permit to work is needed and to create and/or use a permit to work system in their workplace. Permit to work systems are essential for hazard identification and risk assessments and workplaces that carry out manual handling tasks will require permit to work systems.

Who needs to do Permit to work training?

This Permit to Work Course is designed for anyone who will be creating and issuing permits, as well as those who will supervise or carry out the work covered by a permit.

Why do Permit to Work Training?

Permit to work training is a requirement in many types of work and is essential to control risks and ensure workers can work safely. Permits to work ensure correct hazard identification and are vital for risk assessment and to ensure safe systems. Whether you are working in confined spaces or following emergency procedures for hot work, the work permit system enables key principles of safety to be followed routinely, to avoid a major accident and promote safe work systems. Permit to work systems guard against communication failure and identify the control measures and precautions required for specific types of hazardous work, making the work procedure simpler and easier to carry out safely.

How long is a Permit to Work training course?

Training in permit to work systems is an essential but simple process, taking only half a day with our certified Permit to Work course.

What topics are covered in a permit to work training course?

A permit to work training course will teach competent individuals to identify situations which require a permit, to understand and record the information required for a permit, to understand how to create a permit to work system in the workplace or know who else is responsible for managing this system, and to have a good working knowledge of the general principles of permit to work systems and how they work in practice.

What are the different types of Permit to Work?

There are several types of permit to work in Ireland, covering high risk work across many industries, and these are:

  1. General work permit (blue), for work that does not fit into the other categories.
  2. Hot work permit (red), for work involving flammable substances or other hot works that involve fire or another heat energy source, heat application or other fire hazards.
  3. Height permit, for work activities carried out in spaces at least 2m above ground level, such as ladders, elevated platforms and scaffolds.
  4. Confined space permit, for certain activities carried out in confined spaces, such as vessels, tanks, pits or containers.
  5. Excavation work permit, for work that involves mining or digging to extract resources or build infrastructure.
  6. Electrical work permit, for work where the worker or tools will be connected to electrically energised circuits, or electrical energy sources.
  7. Special hazard work permit, for hazardous work that is specific to the workplace or industry seeking the permit, including hazardous environments such as nuclear waste plants.
  8. Chemical work permit, for work which involves harmful chemical substances, such as chemical engineering.

Book your permit to work training course

Our permit to work training course is a half day training session that will teach you everything you need to know about permit to work systems, as well as how to set up a permit to work system in your workplace. It is suitable for all employees who require a permit to work and is assessed and completed through a multiple choice test.