Study of Electronic Permit to Work System at Limestone Mining and Cement Industry to Control Accident and Injuries

Abstract

An internationally recognized method of limiting hazardous activity particular high-risk maintenance, is the permit to work system. The permit-to-work is a formal process that grants permission to particular individual to perform particular task during a designated window of time. It is difficult to control large number of worker’s safety database by using traditional paper Permit to Work System. To remove all unforeseen manual mistake ePTW (Electronic Permit to Work) system was introduced by using customized computer network operated webpage by programming language such as HTML (hypertext markup language), CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), JavaScript Language etc. The objective of the study to be make suggestion and implement various measure to improvement in current ePTW system and comparison of accessibility, control, and decreases in accident rate during paper based PTW versus electronic based PTW. History data studied of a Cement industry of India of 40 different locations and found that, on the year 2010, 09 nos. of fatal accidents occurred before implementation of ePTW, now gradually decreases to 02 as on the year 2022 by implementing ePTW. The scope of the study is included both limestone quarry and cement manufacturing process, because most of the workers are working in mining, auxiliary mining activities like electrical sub-station in mines, underground cabling in mines pit, haul road lighting, limestone crushers, mechanical HEMM Maintenance, civil works, IT support services, instrumentation and telecom, pipe line workers, and pump operator. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.