Work at Height Permit Software
Falls remain the most common cause of serious injury in Indian construction and plant maintenance, and the pattern is depressingly consistent: short job, familiar location, no permit raised because it would only take ten minutes.
When a height permit is required
Any work where a person could fall a distance liable to cause injury. That includes scaffolding, ladders, elevated platforms, roof work, structural steel and maintenance on tall equipment — not merely work above an arbitrary height threshold.
Hazards carried by the permit type
The height permit attaches its gravity-related hazards automatically.
- Working at height and fall exposure
- Fragile surfaces such as roof sheeting and skylights
- Falling objects endangering people below
Full body harness as mandatory equipment
Required PPE includes hard hat, full body harness, safety shoes, high-visibility clothing and gloves. The harness appears on the permit and on the printed copy, which removes the familiar argument at the job about whether this particular task needed one.
Standard five-stage route, deliberately not the heaviest
Work at height runs on the standard workflow rather than the high-risk one: raise, issue and authorise, area owner approval, performer acceptance, closure and hand-back. Every stage is signed.
This is a considered choice. Height work is frequent, and a process so heavy that supervisors avoid it produces less safety than a proportionate one they actually follow. Where your site treats specific height work as high-risk, the designer lets you route that permit type differently.
Area owner approval catches the work below
The area owner stage exists because height work endangers people who are not doing it. The custodian of the zone underneath gets a say before the permit is issued, which is how dropped-object exposure gets noticed before it becomes an incident.
Try it on your own site
A self-service trial provisions a working tenant with the standard catalogue already loaded, so you can run a real process rather than watch a demo.
Start a free trialFrequently asked questions
What height triggers the need for a permit?
The permit type is defined by fall risk rather than a fixed measurement: any work where a person could fall a distance liable to cause injury. Sites that prefer a specific threshold can encode it in the permit template.
Why is height on the standard workflow rather than high-risk?
Height work is frequent, and a disproportionately heavy process gets bypassed. The standard five-stage route still requires signatures at every stage. Sites can move specific height permits onto the high-risk route using the permit designer.
Does it account for people working below?
Yes. Area owner approval is a mandatory stage, so the custodian of the zone underneath reviews the permit before it is issued.
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