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Permit-to-Work & Confined Space

Permit-to-work and confined space entry are among the highest-risk activities in industrial operations. Cortexa verifies compliance with these procedures directly from radio communications — without relying on workers or supervisors to manually log verbal confirmations.

The compliance gap Cortexa closes

Most permit-to-work systems manage the paperwork. They do not monitor what actually happens in the field. Workers issue verbal confirmations over radio — "hot work starting on Unit 4", "confined space entry at sump 7, watcher in place" — and these confirmations are invisible to the permit management system unless manually entered. Cortexa makes them visible automatically.

What Cortexa detects

Evidence record

Every detected permit event is logged with: speaker callsign, channel, timestamp, transcript, and playable audio. The record is available for permit audit, incident investigation, and regulatory inspection.

Regulatory standards