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Digital Permits

Permits that help manage risk without slowing the job down.

Permit to work software for hot work, confined space, energized work, zone conflict checks, and live boards.

An electrical crew needs an energized work permit. The foreman requests it from SALUS on their phone. The system reads each worker’s connected profile — certifications, training — scans the zone for conflicting permits, and pings the super, who approves from wherever they stand. Both crews are notified. No walk to the trailer.

Certifications, zone conflicts, and approver sign-off are verified before the permit is issued.

Energized work permit approval card for Electrical Substation A with the requesting worker’s certification status verified as valid, a “No zone conflicts” check, and an Approve Permit button
Certs checked automatically
Zone conflicts surfaced
Live permit board
Synced to the live permit board
  1. Speak-to-Rosie requests

  2. Automatic cert checks

  3. Zone conflict detection

  4. Instant notifications

  5. Live permit board

01Act 1 · In the field

Hot work, energized, confined space, excavation — requested from the workface.

Speak to Rosie

Request it where the work is.

No walk to the site office. No paper pad. Scan the QR code at the panel or ask Rosie, the AI Admin & Risk Assistant, and the permit request drafts itself on the spot — the people, the location, the task, and the time window already attached. Hot work, energized work, confined space entry, excavation: the request starts where the risk is.

At a QR-tagged electrical panel, a worker asks Rosie to submit a permit request for two workers — the Electrical Panel A permit drafts itself with the zone and both workers attached

Ask

Speak to Rosie or scan the QR code — the request starts at the panel, not the trailer.

Check

Worker certifications are verified against their profiles before the request goes out.

Submit

People, location, task, and timing attached — one tap sends it to the super.

Permit requested. Nobody walked anywhere.

Approve & notify

Approved, pending, or denied — you know instantly.

The super reviews and approves with one tap, from wherever they stand — no walk required on their end either. The moment the status changes, the notification finds the crew: approval, denial, or conflict, every affected crew sees it at once. No guessing whether the paperwork made it to the right desk.

Other processes leave crews waiting at the window. SALUS tells them before they ask.

Real-time status table listing four permits with pending, approved, and denied badges
02Act 2 · The record

Approval should know the context.

The profile gate

No hot work permit without the right people attached.

A permit shouldn’t rely on someone remembering who’s qualified. Every worker on the request carries a connected profile — certifications, training, orientation history — that travels with them from site to site.

The system reads the profile. The human makes the call.

Energized work permit with the submitter’s certification status — electrical work licence and arc flash safety both valid — a “No zone conflicts” check, and an Approve Permit button
01 ·
Hot work
No permit without verified fire watch training.
02 ·
Confined space
No entry without current required training.
03 ·
Energized work
No permit without the right electrical qualification.
04 ·
Lifts
No lift permit without operator or signalperson credentials.
Zone conflict detection

Two permits. One zone. Caught by Rosie.

SALUS scans every request against the permits already active around it — same zone, same time window — automatically. A hot work crew and a painting crew with flammable solvents never operate in overlapping zones, because the overlap is flagged before the approver ever taps.

Paper permits can’t see each other. Rosie can.

Conflict Detected card flagging Zone 4: a hot work crew and a painting crew scheduled in overlapping zones and hours, with Rosie confirming no other conflicts detected
03Act 3 · In the office

Open permits stay visible until they close.

The live permit board

Every active permit. One live board.

The live permit board shows every active permit by zone, trade, status, and time remaining. Which zone has hot work running? Who’s pending, who’s expired, which work permits are still open at 4 PM? One look answers it — for the super on site and the safety director three projects away.

No radio poll. No zone walk. One board.

Tablet permit board listing six zones with trade, status, and expiry — flagging a conflict in Zone 4 where hot work and painting with flammable solvents cannot operate simultaneously
By zone & trade
Every open permit, mapped to where and who.
By status
Pending, approved, denied, expired — at a glance.
By the clock
Time remaining on every permit window, counting down live.
Rosie keeps watch

It’s 4 PM. Rosie knows what’s still open.

Rosie knows which permits are still open when everyone has left site — and which were never approved at all. She acts: notifications go out, closure steps get queued, and the dashboard tells you where to look first. An open permit at the end of shift stops being a memory test.

Permit dashboard showing 12 active hot work, 7 lockout, and 5 confined space permits with a permit-by-type chart, while Rosie alerts that 2 permits need closure before tomorrow and the site supervisor has been notified

Open past closing

Permits still active when the site empties — flagged, supervisor notified.

Never approved

Requests stalled in pending — surfaced before a crew assumes coverage.

Acts on it

Notifications sent, closure steps queued, dashboard prioritized — automatically.

The site goes home. Rosie keeps watch.

Business impact

Less permit friction. Fewer high-risk blind spots.

Operations gets faster approvals, safety gets better control, and executives get confidence that high-risk work is gated by live data, not memory.

Speed

Request to approval in minutes, from the point of work. The schedule stops waiting on paperwork.

Control

Prerequisites and zone conflicts surface before approval.

Visibility

The live board shows open and closing permits.

Feature grid

Everything your permit process should have been doing all along.

01 ·

Mobile permit requests

Scan the QR at the point of work or ask Rosie — drafted where you stand.

02 ·

Automatic cert verification

Worker profiles are checked before the request is even submitted.

03 ·

Zone conflict detection

Overlapping permits in the same zone flagged before approval.

04 ·

Instant notifications

Approval, denial, or conflict — every affected crew knows in real time.

05 ·

Live permit board

Every active permit by zone, trade, status, and time remaining.

06 ·

Rosie open-permit watch

Permits still open after the crews go home get flagged — and chased to closure.

Go deeper

Go deeper from permit to prerequisite.

Permits work when the people, equipment, and records behind them are live.

FAQ

Permit to work software, electronic permit to work system, hot work, confined space, energized work, and live permit board FAQ

What is permit to work software for construction?
Permit to work software digitizes the request, review, approval, notification, monitoring, and close-out of permits for high-risk construction work such as hot work, confined space entry, energized work, excavation, lockout windows, and work at height.
What is an electronic permit to work system?
An electronic permit to work system replaces paper permit packets with a live workflow: crews request the permit from the field, worker profiles and prerequisites are checked, approvers review the context, affected crews are notified, and open permits stay visible on a live board until closure.
Can SALUS support hot work permits?
Yes. SALUS can support hot work permit workflows for welding, cutting, grinding, and related work. The workflow can connect the request to worker profiles, fire watch training status, zone context, approver review, notifications, and permit closeout. Your safety program defines the final hot work requirements.
Can SALUS support confined space permit workflows?
Yes. SALUS can support confined space permit workflows by connecting the entry request to the worker profile, required training, the zone, the approver, attachments, and closeout proof. Atmospheric testing, rescue planning, and regulatory determinations remain controlled by the employer’s confined space program.
Can SALUS support energized work or electrical permits?
Yes. Energized work and electrical permit workflows can include worker qualification checks, equipment or panel context, zone checks, approval routing, notifications, and live status visibility before work begins.
How do worker profile gates work for permits?
Each worker on the permit request carries a connected profile with certifications, training, orientation history, and other readiness context. SALUS surfaces that context before approval so the approver can see whether the right people are attached to the high-risk work.
How does zone conflict detection work?
Zone conflict detection compares a permit request with other active or requested permits in the same area and time window. If two crews, trades, or tasks could overlap in a risky way, Rosie can flag the conflict before approval.
What is a live permit board?
A live permit board shows open, pending, approved, denied, expiring, and closed permits by zone, trade, status, and time remaining. Supervisors and safety leaders can see high-risk work without polling by radio or walking the site.
How does Rosie help with permit closeout?
Rosie can surface permits still open near end of shift, flag requests that were never approved, notify the right people, queue closure steps, and prioritize the permits that need attention before the site goes home.
What should we bring to a permit software demo?
Bring one current hot work, confined space, energized work, excavation, lockout, or work-at-height permit. SALUS can map the workflow from field request to worker profile checks, zone conflict detection, approval, live board visibility, notifications, and closeout proof.
Verified compliance resource

Need the rule behind the workflow?

Use the dated OSHA for Construction field guide for current penalties, inspection steps, recordkeeping, and heat-rule status.

Explore the OSHA field guide
Permit demo

Bring one high-risk permit.
We will show the connected workflow.

Walk through request, worker profile checks, certifications, zone conflict, approval, live board, and closeout.

Bring the current workflow. We will map the live version from field action to proof.