Your confined space permits, off paper and in one place
Your paper permit becomes a digital one, drawn from the signed assessment and filled in on a phone, tablet or computer. Every assessment, permit and signature sits in one record your whole team works in.
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What changes when your permits move off paper.
Written once, used every time
Every permit draws its hazards and controls from the signed assessment.
Nothing to number, date or stamp
Permit numbers, dates and signature times are recorded as the permit is filled in.
Found in seconds
Every permit for every space is in one place, listed by space.
An inspector gets a link
The signed assessment is at an address you send.
Everyone on the same record
The crew at the space, the supervisor in the office and the competent person off site work in one record at the same time, each with their own role and access.
One confined space, from assessment to entry
Assess the space
A competent person completes the 13-section hazard assessment, from atmospheric hazards to the rescue plan.
Sign it
Signing locks the assessment. From that moment its signed copy cannot be changed, and it sits at an address you can send to an inspector.
Issue entry permits
Each permit is bound to the signed assessment, filled in on a device at the space or on paper and uploaded.
Keep it current
A revision leaves the signed assessment in force until the new one is signed. Withdrawal takes it out of force at once.
What you can show an inspector
The signed assessment
At a shareable address, locked since the day it was signed, naming the competent person who signed it.
Every entry permit for the space
Digital permits and uploaded paper permits alike, each tied to the assessment it was issued under.
The audit trail
Who signed, revised, reviewed and withdrew each document, and when they did it.
What Anchor does not do
Anchor does not review your assessments or say whether they comply. That judgement belongs to your competent person.
What a confined space incident can cost the people responsible
Ontario's Occupational Health and Safety Act sets these maximum fines for each offence. A conviction for criminal negligence has no cap at all.
- A director or officer, per offence
- $1,500,000
- A corporation, per offence
- $2,000,000
- Plus up to 12 months in jail. A supervisor, worker or any other individual, per offence.
- $500,000
- Criminal negligence under the Westray provisions, Criminal Code section 217.1
- No cap
Every fine also carries a mandatory 25 per cent victim fine surcharge. Occupational Health and Safety Act, section 66. Figures checked on October 2, 2026.
What due diligence looks like on paper
The defence the Act allows is due diligence: proof that every reasonable precaution was taken, written down before anything went wrong.
- A hazard assessment for each space, written before anyone enters it
- Signed by a competent person, with the signed copy kept unaltered
- Every entry permit tied to the assessment it was issued under
- The judgement stays with your competent person; Anchor keeps the record and gives no opinion on it
Who signs your assessments
Your own competent person
If you have a qualified competent person on staff or on contract, they author and sign your assessments in Anchor.
A credentialed competent person from CCL Health and Safety
If you do not, one visits each facility, authors its assessments in Anchor and signs them.
Built for organizations with many spaces to manage
Municipalities
Water and wastewater plants, pumping stations and maintenance holes, with permits issued every week by staff and contractors.
Anchor for municipalitiesManufacturers and agricultural operations
Tanks, pits, bins and silos at your own plants, each assessed once and entered under a permit bound to that assessment.
How it worksConsulting and rescue firms
Assessments for many client companies, signed by your credentialed staff. Entry permits are run by your team or by the client's own staff.
Anchor for consulting firmsSee Anchor against your own spaces
A 30-minute walkthrough using the kinds of spaces and permits your crews deal with, and a straight answer on whether Anchor fits.
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