Posted By Glyn Atkinson
Lee, are you wanting a trained authoriser for permit issue on site, or a training course for competency of the engineer who will also issue permits?

Posted By Glyn Atkinson
What qualifications and experience/skill level has the engineer in question?

When I risk assess the ability of a general permit to work authoriser, I would look at previous qualifications, that person's experience in the area in which they will issue permits, not forgetting that an excellent user may not be a good trainer or authoriser !

For other areas of authorisation, ie Hot Work permits or Confined Spaces entries, then the level of in house training is much higher for our areas and working requirements.

If working on a particular machine, possibly with software or interlock functions that could relate to latent stored energy for electrics, pneumatics or hydraulics, then I would expect manufacturer training to have been done to allow that person to be certified as competent to work on that machine and also to allow others to work on tasks for that machine via a permit system.

May I politely ask what advantage you are looking for from external training - would the potential trainer know all of your internal processes and machinery to be able to competently advise on permit authorisations?