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Permit to Work Software

Stay safe.
Stay compliant.

Novade’s Permit to Work software (PTW system) helps you manage high-risk work and permit requests efficiently. Get full traceability, real-time visibility, and unmatched flexibility for workplace safety.
Novade PTW screens

Smart tools to boost productivity

All permit types

All permit types

Digitise any type of permit, including hot work, confined space, working at height, lifting, and more.​

Mobile-first

Mobile-first

Submit, review, and approve permits from any mobile device, even when working offline.

Fully customisable

Fully customisable

Configure permit templates, approval workflows, user roles, and exports to fit the way your team works on site.​​

Real-time status

Real-time status

Visualise active permits on dashboards or maps, with real-time status and location tracking.​

Smart automation

Smart automation

Auto-fill repetitive fields, verify credentials, detect permit conflicts, and speed up permit issuance.

Secure & compliant

Secure & compliant

Capture digital signatures, maintain full audit trails, and store records securely in the cloud​.​​

Manage the entire permit lifecycle

Application

Application

Conduct risk assessments, add documentation, and submit from any mobile device.

Approval

Approval

Validate the risk assessment, check certificates, and detect potential conflicts.

Monitoring

Monitoring

Track the real-time status and location of all active PTWs, and revoke permits anytime.

Closure

Closure

Keep records in the cloud or export them in PDF format; use data for analytics.​

Built for the field

Novade empowers your site teams with tools designed for real work conditions:
  • Easy form filling: Custom fields, QR codes, photos, checkboxes, and more.
  • Notifications: Alerts for pending approvals, expirations, or revocations​.
  • Geolocation: Record GPS data for activities, assets, and personnel​​.
  • Documents: Access drawings, safety plans, equipment certificates and more.
  • Digital signatures: Capture mobile digital signature, timestamps, and audit trails.

“We save more than 90 minutes for each PTW application, from submission to approval.”

– Darryl Ng, Senior Safety Officer, Hwa Seng Builder

Novade mobile app detecting permit-to-work conflicts on construction site drawing

Detect potential conflicts

  • Automatically identify hazardous activities scheduled in the same location or at the same time.
  • View the locations of conflicting PTWs on a site map or floor plan.
  • Alert safety teams before conflicting permits are approved to prevent simultaneous high-risk activities.

Novade worker qualifications screen displaying safety certifications and license details

Easily check personnel credentials

  • Maintain an up-to-date database of workers’ credentials
  • Quickly verify that personnel have the required skills and competencies to perform their tasks
  • Set automatic reminders for certificate renewals
Mobile app interface showing excavator certificate for permit-to-work safety system

Easily verify machinery certifications

  • Ensure that all equipment utilised on-site meets industry standards and regulations
  • Easily access inspection, maintenance, and calibration records
  • Set reminders for certification renewals
Novade Permit To Work safety dashboard displaying permits, approvals, and compliance metrics

Dashboards​ give you full visibility

  • View PTWs by status, type, or approval workflow stage
  • Interactive map of all high-risk activities happening on site
  • Immediate access to records in case of an incident or audit

“Novade helps us improve communication with subcontractors and reduce the chances of accidents.”

– Rex Ip, CEO, Able Engineering

Novade site dashboard displaying project metrics, safety compliance data, and performance charts

Improve safety and compliance with data analytics

  • Easily identify PTWs created, rejected, and revoked across your sites
  • Analyse average submission and approval times.
  • Identify potential bottlenecks and reasons for PTW submission delays

Improve permit management with Novade

Enforce HSE compliance

Enforce HSE compliance

Standardise controls and approval processes for high-risk work.

Reduce application time

Reduce application time

Efficient submission, verification and approval process

Reduce admin costs by 80%

Reduce admin costs by 80%

Say goodbye to thousands of paper-based forms. Easily retrieve digital records

Take control of high-risk work
Digitise permits, approvals and monitoring with a configurable PTW system managing over one million permits every month worldwide.

FAQ

A Permit to Work (PTW) is a formal process used to control high-risk activities such as hot work, working at height, confined space entry and lifting operations. It ensures risks are assessed, appropriate controls are in place and work is authorised before it starts.

Permit to Work software digitises the process of creating, reviewing, approving, issuing and closing work permits. It replaces paper-based processes with digital permit templates and approval workflows, helping teams improve visibility, maintain accurate records and manage high-risk work more efficiently.

Novade Permit to Work system is used by organisations in high-risk industries around the world, including building construction, infrastructure, energy, utilities and industrial operations. More than one million permits to work are managed on the Novade platform every month, helping teams control high-risk activities, improve visibility and maintain consistent permit-to-work processes across sites and projects.

Proven at scale: leading contractors use Novade to manage millions of permits every year.
Highly configurable: adapt permit templates, forms and approval workflows to your existing processes.
Easy to use: submit, review and approve permits from mobile devices, including when working offline.
Integrated risk controls: incorporate risk assessments, credentials, certifications and control measures into the permit process.
Advanced analytics: analyse permit efficiency, bottlenecks and safety trends across projects.

Novade gives teams real-time visibility of active and planned permits across a site. Safety teams can identify conflicting activities, verify worker credentials and equipment certifications, monitor permit status and location, and maintain a complete audit trail from application to closure.
By bringing permit data and controls into one system, organisations can improve coordination and manage high-risk work more consistently across sites and projects