Nelson reads the whole document, picks out what could be stronger and shows where. The contractor can improve it before it reaches your Approver, and your Approver starts with a clear summary, not page one.
Permit evolution has come in two clear steps.
Step one: paper to digital. Producing and considering a permit on screen, rather than writing it out by hand or waiting at the printer, takes around 10-15 minutes. Each TAP permit is one audited record. Hazards come straight from the Stacking Plan, clashing jobs are flagged, and attendance shows who is on site.
But that time has always left something out: the RAMS.
Step two arrives this month, and it comes down to two phrases: Machine Time and Thinking Time.
Machine Time is the reading and cross-checking. Meet Nelson, TAP’s own AI assistant, built into your permits. Be honest: do you have time to work through 70 pages of RAMS for every job? Nelson reviews them in under a minute, highlights where they could be strengthened and gives your Approver a clear summary.
Thinking Time is the judgement. Less of it goes on finding the issues, and more on the ones that matter.
Still on paper? You’re two steps behind.
There is an obvious third step: automating the Thinking Time too. It would take only a few more lines of code.
We’ve chosen not to write them.
A permit is a decision about whether people can safely do a job in a particular place at a particular time. That often turns on things no system can see: a tenant’s client visit, a plant room that looked different this morning, a contractor whose answers don’t quite add up. And “the system approved it” isn’t an answer anyone should have to give.
Nelson suggests and summarises. Your Approver decides.
Give the machine the Machine Time. Keep the Thinking Time for people.