Software for the engineers who run gas distribution work.
The safe control of operations is a sequence, and the sequence is what keeps people alive. We build tools that enforce it, record what actually happened, and produce the document at the end of it — rather than asking somebody to write one up afterwards.
At a glance.
The work it covers.
Five operations, one spine. The register, the people and the record are shared, so a company that takes one tool is not starting again with the next.
Permitry
Permit to work under the safe control of operations — raised, circulated, authorised on site, briefed, worked, handed back and closed, in that order and no other.
Purging
Purging of mains and services: the volumes, the flow rates, and a record of what was purged, where, and by whom.
Testing for soundness
The pressure, the duration, the allowable loss, and the certificate that follows from them.
Assurance
The evidence handed to whoever is asking for it — the network operator, an auditor, or the company itself — built from work already recorded rather than assembled afterwards.
Operations and maintenance
Planned maintenance, inspections and work orders for gas installations, with every visit recorded and signed on the spot.
Where it works.
The United Kingdom
Built to IGEM/GL/6 Edition 3 and HSE guidance on permit-to-work systems. That is the standard the tools enforce and the wording they use, whoever is holding the permit.
The Gulf
The UAE and Qatar are laying new polyethylene distribution networks, and the operations are the same: excavation near live plant, flow stopping, purging, testing for soundness. Where an operator works to its own procedure rather than IGEM, the sequence and the wording are configurable. The enforcement is not. For operators running gas installations, the same record covers operations and maintenance.
What we build.
Who builds it.
Built by an engineer who writes these documents.
Gas Distribution AIGas Distribution A is Michael Freeman, a UK gas distribution engineer. He writes the routine operation documents and method statements that principal contractors work to on live networks, to IGEM standards — purging, testing for soundness, flow stopping and permit to work. The tools are built from that work, not from a specification of it.
Try it.
Run Permit Control alongside your current system for two weeks.
On real permits, with the paper still the permit. No charge, and nothing to install. The only question worth asking at the end is where it stopped somebody doing something they needed to do.
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