Confined Space, Hot Work, and LOTO Permit Software

In short: Operational permit software issues confined-space entry permits with oxygen, LEL, and CO2 readings, attendants, and rescue provisions; hot-work permits with fire watch and gas tests; and lockout-tagout permits with energy-isolation points and verification. Every open permit shows on a live board and on the EHS command center, and expiry is enforced instead of assumed.

Confined space: fermenters, stills, and silos

A confined-space entry permit carries the atmospheric readings that make entry defensible, oxygen, LEL, and CO2, along with the attendant and rescue provisions. Fermenters and stills are classic distillery confined spaces where CO2 displaces oxygen fast; the permit records that the atmosphere was tested and who was standing by, not just that someone went in.

Hot work where the vapor is

Welding, cutting, and grinding near ethanol demands a hot-work permit with a designated fire watch and a documented gas test before the arc strikes. The permit records both, and its expiry is tracked, so a permit issued for a morning job does not silently cover the afternoon.

Lockout-tagout with verification

LOTO permits record each energy-isolation point and the verifier who confirmed zero energy before work began. When the work closes, so does the permit, and the history stays queryable, so the answer to "was that pump locked out" is a record, not a recollection.