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7:31 PM 85% T he PTP is prepared by the project crew or How do these features help the user?
Pre-task PTP should, at a minimum, address the following • PTP ACCESSIBILITY is easy with cloud
individual performing any given task. A detailed
• SPEECH-TO-TEXT eliminates spelling
errors and allows simultaneous writing and
questions:
communication of the PTP to the crew.
• Have you walked your work area to address
lighting, housekeeping, slip, and trip issues?
Planning • Are operators certified/trained? • PERMITS are immediately available, no
storage allowing management and safety to
• Have all tools/equipment been inspected prior
view from anywhere and/or print to a wireless
to use?
printer.

• Are materials and tools adequate to perform
need to search or ask for them if a crew is
the job?
conducting confined space entry, electrical/
non-electrical hot work, excavation, etc.
• Has the work plan been coordinated with other
crafts in the area?
• Does this task require special permits or • TOOL TRAINING can be provided at any
time with one click for safe tool use. This is
procedures?
From paper • Have barricading requirements appropriate to especially helpful with new hires.
the task been addressed?
to iPad • Are you working around live systems or The overall benefit of a digital PTP is that the user
has a safety and production tool readily available
at his/her fingertips. Outcomes of the digital PTP
energized equipment?
• Do Safety Data Sheets need to be reviewed to provides easy accessibility, waste reduction, and
proceed with this work? increased quality.
• Are employees trained to the proper usage Rosendin provides all employees with Pre-Task

and disposal of PPE? Planning training during New Hire Orientation.
• Are enough people assigned to safely The use of PTP cards allows employees to
In 2001, Rosendin Electric introduced a new planning complete the task? become engaged and a part of planning their
work, identifying hazards, and determining ways to
tool to its field members, Pre-Task Planning. The purpose • Have employees been trained in safe ladder eliminate or mitigate them.

of Pre-Task Planning, or PTP, is to recognize existing usage? Rosendin's Safety Department developed the PTP
and potential job step hazards and take the appropriate • Is there a new hire who will need support? cards by using historical loss information to address
specific hazards previously encountered. The cards
measures to eliminate and/or control these hazards. Once completed, the PTP is reviewed by the crew, were distributed to superintendents within the
and/or individual, and signed prior to commencing
By utilizing and standardizing best known methods work. If any changes occur within the task scope of, company for input on developing a PTP card that
is industry specific to the work project teams were
additions must be made to the original PTP. New
to recognize hazards, work crew coordination, and tasks are required to have a separate completed performing.

communication needs, and documenting these for future PTP. Pre-Task Plans are to be audited periodically One finalized, the cards were made into tri-folds to
by Project Management and Safety.
review, ensures all tasks are performed incident free. easily fit in a pocket and or easy accessibility. The
overall goal of the PTP card is to have it out in the
Now fast forward 17 years, Rosendin Electric is field where the work is happening and not sitting on
taking the Pre-Task Plan to the digital world. The a desk in the office.
PTP is now an application on the iPad. Using PDF
software, the new PTP application features speech-
to-text, permit retrieval, tool training guides, and
signatures all at the users fingertips.

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