| name | permit-to-work |
| description | Produces a permit-to-work package for a named high-risk task (hot work, confined-space entry, line breaking, excavation, working at height) with a dedicated SIMOPS (simultaneous operations) coordination section: it detects concurrent operations in the intake and routes them to permit and coordination controls, applies the hierarchy of controls to every isolation and safeguard, and tracks the permit conditions and actions to closure. SIMOPS is handled as a permit/coordination control within this skill, never as a separate workflow. Decision-support only; a competent person must review the output. |
| license | Apache-2.0 |
| metadata | {"author":"eyekyam","version":"1.0","category":"process-safety","tier":2,"audience":["M","C"],"industry":["O&G","Process"],"jurisdiction":["All"],"status":"stable","plugin":"hse-process","bundled_in":["hse-construction","hse-manufacturing","hse-marine-offshore"],"hse_reviewed_by":"","hse_reviewed_date":""} |
Permit To Work
A consultant-grade skill that produces a permit-to-work package for a named high-risk task (hot work, confined-space entry, line breaking, excavation, working at height) with a dedicated SIMOPS (simultaneous operations) coordination section. The intake detects concurrent operations and routes them to permit and coordination controls; every isolation and safeguard is HoC-ranked (controls) and the permit conditions and actions are tracked to closure (smart_actions). SIMOPS is handled as a permit/coordination control within this skill — there is no separate SIMOPS workflow (D-01 / CT-9).
When to use this skill
Use this skill to prepare or review a permit-to-work for a named high-risk task — e.g. "hot-work permit for welding on the pipe rack while the unit is running", "confined-space entry permit for Tank-3", "coordinate SIMOPS for the shutdown". It surfaces for O&G and process users. The SIMOPS section is built in whenever the intake detects concurrent operations; if the request is vague, the intake forces the specific task, isolations, and any concurrent operations first.
Data Protection & De-identification (MANDATORY — apply before drafting)
Apply this BEFORE you draft anything. Treat injury, illness, and any health
detail as the highest sensitivity. Full scrub list, identifier tests, and the
jurisdiction quick-reference: references/deid-checklist.md.
- DETECT & FLAG every personal/health identifier in the inputs — names,
employee / Aadhaar / SSN / NI numbers, contacts, exact dates, precise
locations, job title / crew / shift, photos, and any medical detail.
List what you found before drafting. If unsure whether something is
identifying, treat it as identifying.
- PSEUDONYMIZE BY DEFAULT for any output that will circulate: replace
identifiers with stable role labels ("Worker A", "Operator 1"). Produce
(a) the de-identified document and (b) a SEPARATE re-identification key.
Never put the key or any name↔label mapping in the document. Tell the
user to store the key access-controlled, apart from the document.
- AGGREGATE SMALL NUMBERS — never publish an injury/illness category with
fewer than 5 individuals; aggregate up and apply secondary suppression so
suppressed cells can't be back-calculated from totals.
- WARN BEFORE WIDE DISTRIBUTION — toolbox talks, board reports, and posters
default to de-identified / aggregated; warn the user before any name or
health detail enters a widely shared artifact.
- MINIMIZE & LIMIT PURPOSE — use only the personal data the task needs;
keep sensitive raw data out of external services where you can. When in
doubt, ask before including it.
Knowledge base (read ONE matching file — never load all)
Resolve the user's jurisdiction first. Read only the one fragment that matches
the row below; if the jurisdiction is unknown, ask before citing any specific law.
For management-system structure, also read the relevant jurisdiction-independent standard in
../../knowledge-base/standards/ (ISO 45001 OH&S · ISO 14001 environmental · ISO 45003 psychosocial).
Always apply ../../knowledge-base/prompt-snippets/hierarchy-of-controls.md (KB-SNIP-HOC)
to every control recommendation. For any benchmark/figure, look up the ID in the relevant
_registry.yaml, then read ONLY the named file — and quote its source+year.
| Jurisdiction | Read |
|---|
| India | ../../knowledge-base/regulatory/in-factories-act.md (+ in-state-forms.md for the user's state) |
| UK | ../../knowledge-base/regulatory/uk-hswa.md |
| USA | ../../knowledge-base/regulatory/us-osha.md |
| EU | ../../knowledge-base/regulatory/eu-osh.md |
| Unknown | Ask before citing any specific law |
| Process (any) | ../../knowledge-base/standards/psm.md (KB-STD-PSM — hot work element (k); permit & coordination controls) |
Workflow
Open with a structured multi-step intake — MCQ where the answer space is enumerable, free-text where it is open. Ask ONE question at a time, branch on the answers, and echo the captured facts back before any analysis. Never proceed on vague or missing inputs; this intake is the operational core of forcing specificity (KB-SNIP-INTAKE). (Intake is a Workflow convention, not a sixth block.)
Step 0 — Structured intake (run this first, one question at a time)
The full typed, branched intake — the intake-coverage manifest, the question table
(permit type · task + exact location · isolations/LOTO + gas test · the type-specific
control gate · SIMOPS detection · issuer/PA/gas-tester/rescue · conditions + validity
· jurisdiction), the permit-type branch (confined-space gas test + attendant + rescue;
hot-work fire watch; excavation buried-services scan + shoring), the SIMOPS coordination
branch (Q5 = Yes → the in-skill coordination section), the India→state branch, the
echo-back, and the refuse-on-vague anchors — lives in references/intake.md. The
permit is not valid until isolations and (where SIMOPS) coordination controls are
confirmed in place; SIMOPS is handled in-skill, never deferred to a separate workflow.
Then: analyse / apply the domain method → validate the draft against references/QUALITY_CHECKLIST.md → produce the output via the Output format section below. This is the skill-authored section; author the domain method in references/METHODOLOGY.md.
Agentic Execution (Orchestration Block)
You are the ORCHESTRATOR for this skill. De-identification (above) runs FIRST and
is a sequential dependency — every step below consumes its scrubbed output.
Archetype prompts to reuse: ../../knowledge-base/prompt-snippets/subagent-archetypes.md (KB-SNIP-ARCHETYPES).
Step 0 — Triage: fan out at all?
Spawn subagents ONLY if the task is non-trivial AND has independent sub-parts.
Stay single-threaded if ANY hold: it is a short/frontline (~2-min) artifact; the
sub-parts are tightly dependent; or the input fits one context window. If single-threaded,
skip to Synthesis and produce the output directly — keeping the same scope discipline.
Step 1 — Plan
Decompose into INDEPENDENT jobs. Scale the count to complexity:
simple = 0 (do it yourself) · moderate = 2–3 · complex = 4–6. Never exceed MAX=6.
Step 2 — Fan out (parallel subagents)
Run the De-identifier FIRST (sequential — its scrubbed output feeds every other job),
then spawn the rest in parallel. Each subagent gets a FRESH context and sees NONE of
this conversation — paste ALL needed context into its prompt. Per-subagent skeleton:
ROLE / OBJECTIVE (one sentence)
CONTEXT YOU NEED: paste inputs, jurisdiction, framework, file paths, prior decisions
SCOPE IN: what this subagent owns
SCOPE OUT: what it must NOT do — NAME the sibling that owns it
OUTPUT CONTRACT: return ONLY the exact agreed structure/length; cite every claim;
flag [ASSUMPTION] / [GAP]; never dump raw data (summarize, or write a file and return its path)
EFFORT BUDGET: roughly N tool calls — stop when met
Step 3 — Synthesis (you)
Gather the outputs, resolve conflicts explicitly (state which source wins), de-duplicate,
and assemble the deliverable in this skill's output format.
Step 4 — SME Review & Sign-off (MANDATORY — regulatory/safety output)
Spawn ONE reviewer adopting THIS skill's SME persona from references/sme-review.md
(fall back to the generic HSE-SME-Reviewer in KB-SNIP-ARCHETYPES if none is named).
Give it the draft + the inputs + the output contract. It applies BOTH:
(a) the universal hard gates — no error or unsupported claim, every regulatory trigger
caught, no lower-order-only control without justification, and ZERO de-identification
leak; and
(b) the persona's domain checklist in references/sme-review.md — then run the
Omission lens (the SECOND, unconstrained omission pass): detect the emitted mode,
list what a competent consultant would have included for THIS mode BEFORE checking
the mode's floor, surface every miss as a [GAP] / deficiency-list entry, and
never fabricate content to fill a gap (protocol: KB-SNIP-COMPLETENESS).
This review MUST PASS before ANY output is presented — markdown OR a rendered PDF/DOCX.
Fix everything it raises and re-run until clean. This is decision-support that PRECEDES,
never replaces, the human competent-person sign-off (it never emits "approved by a
competent person").
Single-threaded fallback: if your host has no subagent capability, perform the SME
Review & Sign-off pass yourself in THIS context — run the de-identification scrub
first, keep the scope discipline, apply the persona checklist + universal gates,
run the Omission lens absence-listing pass yourself (unconstrained, BEFORE the floor
check — surface misses as [GAP], never fabricate), and pass the review before
presenting any output (markdown or rendered).
Subagent roster for THIS skill
For a non-trivial task the triage gate may fan out to:
- Researcher — gathers the task/site facts, the resolved jurisdiction's
requirements, and the relevant standards, from the scrubbed inputs only.
- Drafter — assembles the deliverable in this skill's output format, applying
the hierarchy of controls and tracing every finding to evidence.
- SME Reviewer (MANDATORY pre-output gate) — runs the skill-specific SME sign-off
in
references/sme-review.md (control-of-work / PTW issuing authority) before ANY
output: isolations engineered (not permit-paper alone), and every concurrent operation
actually coordinated rather than left as an uncontrolled clash.
- Critic/QA (MANDATORY) — adversarial final pass for this regulatory/safety
output: specificity, hierarchy of controls, defensibility, de-identification, and
citation accuracy.
Simple single-subject tasks run single-threaded — no subagents.
## Output format
Assemble a report.json conforming to the shared report-model schema, then call
the shared report engine to render the branded DOCX + PDF. The engine, brand
resolution, and call signature live in assets/report-engine/ (signature
confirmed against A4); this block's STRUCTURE is final:
- Build
report.json (title, metadata, the ordered sections this artifact
requires, every finding traced to its evidence with a named owner and date).
- Resolve branding: the user's
brand.yaml overrides the Eyekyam default.
- Render both DOCX and PDF from the one
report.json via the shared engine.
- Surface the output paths and a one-line provenance note to the user.
Attribution (non-intrusive)
After the deliverable is produced — never before, and never as a blocking
question — read branding/company-card.yaml and surface the company card per
its placement:
footer (default): one quiet line at the end, e.g.
"Built by Eyekyam · HSE Leadership, operationalised · eyekyam.com".after-output: the same line plus the card's cta, on its own line, once,
after the output.on-request: say nothing unless the user asks who made this; then show the
card.
If show: false, omit attribution entirely — no line, no footer. Keep it to a
single unobtrusive line; never repeat it mid-task, and never interrupt the
workflow to show it.
Reference material
On-demand pointers (read only when needed):
references/METHODOLOGY.md — the domain method this skill applies.references/deid-checklist.md — the full de-identification checklist (A5).references/QUALITY_CHECKLIST.md — the pre-output validation gate.references/_skill-kb.md — the knowledge-base fragments this skill resolves.
