Permit to Work Electricals
Health & Safety Xpert™ Total Toolkit is an easy to use software package that will save you massive amounts of time producing crucial health and safety documentation legally required under current UK law. This includes the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 and the new Construction Design Management (CDM) Regulations 2007.
The Permit to Work Electricals printout is available with Health and Safety Xpert Total Toolkit. Click here to view a sample Permit to Work Electricals PDF.
The purpose of Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 is to require precautions to be taken against the risk of death or personal injury from electricity at work.
Having identified risks in a Risk Assessment, systems must be designed to be of such construction as to prevent danger. The assessment must be done by a competent person and will normally be formalized into a specific Permit to Work, applicable to a particular task. Method Statements need only be completed when there are unforeseen, unplanned or specialist activities on site which are not covered by relevant risk assessments. Method Statements are site-specific and can only be completed by a trained, experienced and competent person. Method Statements must be completed on site.
Where technical knowledge or experience is necessary to prevent danger, all persons must possess such knowledge or experience or be under appropriate supervision.
Duties are imposed on employers, self-employed and the employees. The particular duties on employees are intended to emphasize the level of responsibility which employees in the electrical trades and professions are expected to take on as part of their job.
Use the Permit to Work Electricals included with Health and Safety Xpert to help you control hazardous work and authorise specific persons to undertake particular tasks in a designated area. The Permit to Work is designed to help you define the safety precautions to be taken depending on the nature of the work being performed and the hazards involved. You should use it to record the methods to be used and precautions to be taken which should be agreed to by all parties concerned beforehand and clearly stated on the Permit to Work. The Permit to Work must be signed off by all parties before any work commences. Permits to Work are only valid for specific short periods of time and therefore help you to monitor the on going use of suitable safe systems of work.
It is important to file these records so that they could be consulted by an inspector if necessary.