EcoOnline, a leading global provider of safety and sustainability software, has officially announced the global expansion of ePermits, which happens to be the company’s comprehensive worker permits solution.
According to certain reports, this particular solution bearing an ability to digitalize and standardize the process of planning, authorizing as well as safely managing personnel engaging in high-risk tasks, regardless of whether they are employees, contractors, or new joiners.
To understand the significance of such a development, we must take into account how global construction sector makes up for a substantial 7% of the world’s total economic output, valued at over £10 trillion annually, with many firms relying on external contractors for projects.
Against that, ePermits arrives on the scene bearing an ability to replace outdated permit processes with a real-time, mobile-ready solution, available in over 20 languages. This particular component treads up a long distance to ensure that only trained, inducted, and approved workers carry out high-risk tasks.
You see, from certifying a new worker to maintaining visibility of all contractors, the software effectively implements regulatory controls at every step to help maintain compliance. All in all, the whole thing should foster alignment, at scale, with frameworks, such as guidance from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), and other international best practices.
Talk about the whole value proposition on a slightly deeper level, we begin from the promise of readiness for high-risk environments. This translates to how the given solution is actually purpose-built to manage complex, interdependent permit types (e.g. hot work, confined space, isolation), a critical factor in sectors where safety-critical errors can have severe outcomes.
Next up, there is a facility in place for end-to-end control of work, a facility which integrates safety rules, RAMS (Risk Assessment Method Statements), competence checks, and SIMOPS (simultaneous operations) detection, thus ensuring that risks are identified and controlled before work begins.
Another detail worth a mention relates to the prospect of active enforcement rather than record-keeping. In essence, EcoOnline’s latest brainchild is capable, at launch, of proactively block permit progress until all conditions (training, PPE, insurance, safety measures) are duly satisfied.
Hold on, we still have a couple of bits left to unpack, considering we haven’t yet touched upon the focus on facilitating configurability without complexity. This involves balancing best-practice workflows with configurable rules, forms, and safety precautions to help organizations adapt the solution without losing standardization.
Rounding up highlights would be the solution’s Innovation-ready nature, something which stems from its mobile paperless workflows with time stamped audit trails and alerts to simplify inspections and demonstrate compliance with confidence.
Among other things, it ought to be acknowledged that customers who have adopted ePermits have successfully eliminated the need to spend, on an average, two to three hours a day manually managing permits, with the whole process now taking less than ten minutes of their day.
“Digitizing the permit-to-work process turns safety from a reactive, time-consuming checkpoint into a proactive advantage,” said Matt Matsui, COO at EcoOnline. “As ePermits expands globally, it builds on our mission to protect people and the planet—ensuring that every worker, wherever they are in the world, whether an employee or contractor, is approved and ready for the job they’ll undertake.”
