Compare EcoOnline Permit to Work vs Sphera Control of Work across permit lifecycle, risk/JSA, isolation and LOTO, SIMOPS, mobile field execution, audit evidence and deployment.
TechSelectAI compares EcoOnline Permit to Work and Sphera Control of Work using recorded product evidence rather than user-specific recommendation scoring. EcoOnline Permit to Work currently has 3 supported, 5 conditional, 5 unknown/not-yet-verified, and 0 not-supported capabilities. Sphera Control of Work currently has 7 supported, 2 conditional, 4 unknown/not-yet-verified, and 0 not-supported capabilities. Known-fact confidence is 98% for EcoOnline Permit to Work and 99% for Sphera Control of Work. Latest recorded review or verification activity across the comparison: Sep 19, 2026.
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Digital permit-to-work solution for hazardous-work templates, approvals, handback, risk documentation, energy-isolation work types, contractor participation and real-time permit visibility within EcoOnline Control of Work.
Integrated control-of-work suite combining permit-to-work, risk/JHA, isolation management, SIMOPS and job-conflict visualization with mobile execution, operational dashboards and connected enterprise workflows.
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Status and confidence reflect recorded evidence. Unknown means not yet verified, not unsupported. In the summary above, TechSelectAI labels this state “research pending”.
| Capability | EcoOnline Permit to Work | Sphera Control of Work |
|---|---|---|
| Android mobile applicationMobile Access | Not Yet Verified0% confidence · native_android_appMobile availability has not yet been verified from first-party evidence. | Not Yet Verified0% confidence · native_android_appMobile availability has not yet been verified from first-party evidence. |
| iOS mobile applicationMobile Access | Not Yet Verified0% confidence · native_ios_appMobile availability has not yet been verified from first-party evidence. | Not Yet Verified0% confidence · native_ios_appMobile availability has not yet been verified from first-party evidence. |
| Mobile web accessMobile Access | Not Yet Verified0% confidence · mobile_webMobile availability has not yet been verified from first-party evidence. | Not Yet Verified0% confidence · mobile_webMobile availability has not yet been verified from first-party evidence. |
| Digital permit lifecycle & authorizationSafe Work Authorization & Risk Control | Supported99% confidenceEcoOnline digitally creates, issues, reviews, approves, extends, hands back, cancels and tracks permits for hazardous work. | Supported99% confidenceSphera Permit to Work standardizes digital work permission, permit status, authorization and hazardous-work execution. |
| Hazard identification, JSA/JHA & risk assessmentSafe Work Authorization & Risk Control | Partially Supported98% confidencePermits can attach risk assessments and method statements and link to broader EHS risk workflows, but a dedicated in-permit JSA engine is not inferred. | Supported99% confidenceSphera Control of Work integrates risk assessments, JHAs, hazards and permit workflows. |
| Isolation & lockout/tagout coordinationSafe Work Authorization & Risk Control | Partially Supported98% confidenceEcoOnline includes lockout/tagout and energy-isolation permit templates, but dedicated isolation-point dependency planning is not inferred from the reviewed evidence. | Supported99% confidenceSphera Isolation Management supports multiphase isolation plans, isolation-point dependencies, work authorizations and permit-linked isolation workflows. |
| Worker/contractor competency & authorization checksSafe Work Authorization & Risk Control | Partially Supported98% confidenceEcoOnline Control of Work can connect contractor credentials, qualifications and access/compliance status to permit processes, but this depends on companion contractor/access modules. | Not Yet Verified0% confidence |
| Audit trail, dashboards & permit analyticsWork Coordination, Visibility & Integration | Supported99% confidenceEcoOnline provides permit tracking, Insights dashboards, live reporting and centralized documentation for audit and compliance visibility. | Supported99% confidencePermit to Work maintains permit/isolation/hazard histories and provides dashboards, reporting, compliance and audit-readiness visibility. |
| EAM/CMMS/work-order integrationWork Coordination, Visibility & Integration | Not Yet Verified0% confidence | Supported98% confidenceSphera documents integration with ERP/work-order processes, including automatic generation of permits from work orders. |
| Mobile & field permit executionWork Coordination, Visibility & Integration | Supported98% confidenceEcoOnline Control of Work provides frictionless mobile access for contractors and frontline participation in work-control processes. | Supported99% confidenceSphera documents powerful mobile capabilities supporting Control of Work at the job site. |
| Shift handover & work coordinationWork Coordination, Visibility & Integration | Partially Supported97% confidenceEcoOnline Permit to Work explicitly supports permit handback and improved handover, but a dedicated shift-handover/logbook application is not inferred. | Partially Supported99% confidenceOperational Logbook and Shift Handover is a dedicated module inside the broader Control of Work suite rather than universal Permit to Work entitlement. |
| SIMOPS, overlapping-work & conflict detectionWork Coordination, Visibility & Integration | Partially Supported96% confidenceEcoOnline documents multi-permit visibility and guidance for flagging simultaneous-work conflicts, but a universal automated SIMOPS engine is not inferred from the core permit product. | Supported99% confidenceSphera explicitly manages SIMOPS and detects work conflicts through real-time work and risk visibility. |
| Site, plot-plan & work-location visualizationWork Coordination, Visibility & Integration | Not Yet Verified0% confidence | Partially Supported99% confidenceControl of Work includes job-conflict visualization and offers Interactive P&ID as a dedicated suite module; full diagram/P&ID entitlement is therefore not assumed in every CoW package. |
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