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Stop Guessing When Your Confined Space Permits Are Safe to Destroy

Every cancelled entry permit has to be kept at least a year, and the annual program review has to be built from them. Miss the review and the permits pile up forever; bin them early and you have destroyed the only record that the entry was done properly. This works out both dates for you, on your phone, offline.

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One-time purchase. No subscription. No account. Works offline.

The permit book in the truck holds every entry.
It cannot tell you which ones you may finally throw away.

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The retention year, worked out

Cancel a permit and the app fixes the date it clears its one-year retention under 1910.146(e)(6). Permits inside the year are listed as keep, permits past it are listed separately, and you stop storing paper nobody can explain the reason for.

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Readings judged, not just recorded

Type in oxygen, LEL, hydrogen sulphide and carbon monoxide and each one is checked against the acceptable entry conditions. A gas left blank is never treated as a pass โ€” it is reported as not recorded, because that is what it is.

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The review that closes the loop

1910.146(d)(14) wants the program reviewed within a year of an entry, using those cancelled permits. The app counts down to that date from your oldest uncovered entry and holds permits back from disposal until the review is actually done.

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A permit you can hand over

Print any record as a full permit form โ€” space, people, hazards, both sets of readings, isolation, ventilation and rescue โ€” for the file, the client pack or the inspector. CSV export for the spreadsheet.

The fields a permit-required entry actually needs

The space

Tank battery, cellar, vessel, pit, excavation, vault or separator, with its own ID, location and permit number.

The people

Entry supervisor, attendant and every authorised entrant, plus how the attendant kept in contact.

The atmosphere

Initial test and latest retest, each with oxygen, flammable, hydrogen sulphide and carbon monoxide and the time it was taken.

The controls

Lockout, blinding, double block and bleed or line breaking, ventilation, and whether a rescue plan is on file.

The hazards

Ten standard confined space hazards to tick, from engulfment to pyrophoric scale, with room for your own notes.

The dates

Entry date, start and end, and the cancellation date that starts the retention clock running.

A record missing any of the fields a permit needs is reported as incomplete rather than quietly scored. It is not counted as open, it is not counted as closed, and no retention date is invented for it โ€” because a permit with no cancellation date has no clock to run.

Six bands, one rule each

Every permit lands in exactly one band, worked out from the dates and the status you record. Nothing reaches disposal on the strength of a blank field.

  • Record incomplete โ€” a field a permit needs is blank, or the dates contradict each other.
  • Retest needed โ€” the entry is still active and the last reading is older than your retest interval.
  • Open โ€” draft or active. The retention clock has not started.
  • Retention elapsed, review not cleared โ€” past the year, held back until the program review is done.
  • Closed, within retention โ€” cancelled and inside the year. Keep it.
  • Eligible for disposal โ€” past the year and covered by a completed review.

Field-ready. Built for the truck, not the office.

โ›‘๏ธ Confined Space Entry & Permit Retention Log
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StatusNew PermitRegisterPermit FormProgram ReviewBackup
1
Incomplete
1
Retest
2
Open
1
Held
1
In retention
1
Disposable
Program review ยท 1910.146(d)(14) The annual program review is 33 days past due. 6 permits not yet marked as covered.
Atmosphere outside the action limits
V-14 Bullet Tank ยท CSE-2026-013
Vessel or tank ยท Active ยท supervisor M. Doyle
O2
20.5
LEL
4
H2S
18
CO
12
Open
H2S above 10 ppm
Retest needed
PIT-3 Flare Pit ยท CSE-2026-011
Pit or sump ยท Active ยท supervisor M. Doyle
Retest needed
last test 6 h ago
Retention elapsed โ€” review not cleared
CEL-7 Cellar ยท CSE-2025-024
Cellar ยท Cancelled and closed ยท supervisor M. Doyle
Held for review
33 days past
Eligible for disposal
TB-104 Wash Tank ยท CSE-2025-018
Tank battery ยท Cancelled and closed ยท supervisor R. Alvarez
Disposable
year cleared
Built by people who have stood the hole watch

Oil Rigs Now has served oilfield professionals since 2011. This is a recordkeeping tool, not a permit authority โ€” it does not measure any atmosphere, does not authorise an entry, and does not replace your employer's permit-required confined space program, the entry supervisor's judgement or a calibrated gas detector. It keeps the dates straight so the paperwork stops being the weak link.

One payment. Yours to keep.

$19
one-time ยท no subscription ยท no account
  • โœ“ Unlimited permits and confined spaces
  • โœ“ One-year retention clock on every cancelled permit
  • โœ“ O2, LEL, H2S and CO checked against the action limits
  • โœ“ Annual program review countdown and history
  • โœ“ Printable permit form and CSV export
  • โœ“ Backup and restore to a file
  • โœ“ Installs to your phone, works with no signal
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Everything stays on your device. Nothing is uploaded, no account is created, and the app keeps working when the truck has no bars.