Assessor Resource
UEPOPS502
Manage permit to work system
Assessment tool
Version 1.0
Issue Date: May 2024
This unit involves the skills and knowledge required to manage the development, implementation and review of the permit to work system in a power generation facility.
Permits to workare a formal system used to control high risk activities in power generation facilities, they specify the control measures to be used. They ensure that all hazards and precautions have been considered beforeany hazardous workbegins.
Competency in this unit requires the ability to plan for implementation of permit to work procedures,develop permit to work system and procedures, manage permit to work systemand audit permit to work procedures. Individuals will, in general, work as an operator with responsibility for managing the permit to work system in a power generation facility.
Power generation plant operators are typically trained and authorised to isolate, prepare plant and issue permits to work.
No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.
Note: Workplace practice
The application of the skills and knowledge described in this unit may require a licence or training permit to practice in the workplace where work is carried out on gas and electrical installations. Additional conditions may apply under state and territory legislative and regulatory licensing requirements.
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