Are You Still Using Paper, Spreadsheets and Word Processor Documents to Manage Your Safety-Critical Permit to Work Processes?
In safety-critical industrial operations, permit to work processes have been a contributory factor in many accidents, incidents and near misses. Tragically leading to fatalities, injuries and environmental damage. Resulting in disruption to organisations and the public with significant emotional and financial costs. Clear, efficient and pragmatic permit to work processes are required and using outdated or overly complex management tools can lead to human factors issues such as lack of communication, instruction, training or understanding.
Permit to work processes managed using paper, spreadsheets and word processor documents present significant challenges to organisations engaging in safety-critical industrial operations such as:
IHF SaaS ePtW Solution: A Digital Yet Pragmatic Permit to Work System Designed by Human Factors Experts
Designed to mitigate fatigue-related accidents and incidents whilst increasing worker productivity — by human factors experts — using an automated and proactive — yet ultimately human and pragmatic — approach, IHF SaaS ePtW has been developed in partnership with a national water company — Scottish Water — and their digitalisation requirement for a customisable, easy-to-use and modern permit to work system that can be cloud-based using Amazon Web Services (AWS) or on-premise if required.
The Benefits of IHF SaaS ePtW to You, Your Workers, Your Organisation and the Public
Scottish Water Case Study: IHF SaaS ePtW
Designed to mitigate fatigue-related accidents and incidents whilst increasing worker productivity — by human factors experts — using an automated and proactive — yet ultimately human and pragmatic — approach, IHF SaaS ePtW has been developed in partnership with a national water company — Scottish Water — and their digitalisation requirement for a customisable, easy-to-use and modern permit to work system that is providing a solution to challenges they had using a paper-based system.
"We worked seamlessly with IHF from the proof-of-concept stage through to the full launch of their ePtW system. They understood our unique challenges from the outset and brought valuable human factors experience to the table. This new system offers us full control and visibility over our permit processes, significantly reducing administrative burdens and improving safety across our thousands of sites. The rollout was smooth, with minimal disruption to our operations with high adoption rate due to it being fully customised to Scottish Water's organisation."
IHF SaaS ePtW also provides significant technical benefits in comparison to using paper, spreadsheets and word processor documents as experienced by Scottish Water: