What is a permit?
A permit allows Builders to approve high risk activities that workers need to complete during the course of a project. The goal is not to prevent these works, but to ensure each worker understands how to undertake the intended activity safely while giving the Builder visibility of high risk activities happening on site.
Accessing Permits on BuildPass
Permits are available to all customers on the Pro or Enterprise plan. Please chat to a member of our team if you would like to have this enabled on your account. Permit templates can be provided by BuildPass if you need them or our team migrate your existing templates into the module for you.
Permit Templates
Permits comprise of three separate templates
- Application - the questions a worker will be asked when applying for the permit
- Enactment - the questions a worker will be asked when they start or stop the permitted work
- Close Out - the questions a worker will be asked when ending their permit
How do workers use permits
Workers have the option of applying for a permit from within the worker app. Any action you take on the permit will be communicated to the worker via text message to ensure they are kept in the loop.
What are permits used for?
Below is a list of common permit types all of which BuildPass
| Hot Works | Ensuring welding and grinding is not done during a total fire ban and fire watch is being completed post hot work | Excavation | Ensuring that no in ground services are disturbed during excavation works |
| Working at Heights | Ensuring workers are safely working from an elevated work platform with adequate safety measures in place | Energisation | Ensuring workers safely connect to or disconnect from the live electricity network while also seeking to not disrupt other works on site |
| Roof Access | Ensuring workers are safe while completing works on the roof and have the right fall protection equipment | Working with Hazardous Materials | Ensuring works workers handling asbestos or other dangerous materials do so in the safest possible manner |
| Cutting or Coring | Ensuring in-slab services are not disturbed when cutting concrete | Working in Restricted Areas or Confined Spaces | Making sure that workers operating outside of the expected places do so safely and are accounted for after completion of the works |