4S Compliance Checklist

A practical readiness checklist for EPC contractors.

This is a self-assessment we put together from what we see break down most often on-site — not an official Aramco or third-party certification document. Use it to see where your current setup has gaps before an audit finds them for you.

Permit-to-Work

  • Every work permit records exactly which workers are assigned to it.
  • A permit cannot be approved if any assigned worker is missing a required certification.
  • Approval authority is scoped to a specific project, site or zone — not granted org-wide by role alone.
  • Completion and independent verification of a permit are tracked as two separate, recorded facts.

Worker Certification

  • Every worker has a single digital record of their certifications, not a folder of paper copies.
  • Certification expiry dates trigger a flag before they lapse, not after.
  • Certification status can be checked on-site in seconds, without a phone call to HR.
  • An expired or revoked certification is enforced as a hard block, with no manual override path.

Audit Trail

  • Every permit approval, rejection and certification check is written to a permanent, independent record.
  • That record can be produced for an external auditor without reconstructing it from spreadsheets.
  • Access to safety-critical data is controlled down to specific menus and features, not just broad roles.
  • Subcontractor and third-party access is scoped to the specific project they are working on.

Fleet & Equipment

  • Vehicle and driver-safety alerts (phone use, drowsiness, lane departure, blind-spot) land in the same system as your incident workflow — not a separate vendor portal.
  • Tool and equipment checkout history is tracked per project, site and zone.
  • A near-miss or incident can be tied back to the specific camera or zone that covers it.

Checked "no" on a few of these?

That's exactly the gap NexSight's Permit-to-Work and Digital Safety Passport are built to close.

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