To allow effective operator management of process upsets by annunciating critical alarms in a timely manner that an operator may react to in order to avoid escalation of the event.Continue Reading

Process alarms are generated when preset parameter levels for real or derived process variables are exceeded.Continue Reading

A system to notify the operators to take action at the appropriate time to avoid undesired consequences.Continue Reading

Alarm safety has helped the oil and gas industry to resolve their maintenance outages and help operators quickly assess the situation to get plant operations back in business. It also avoids the distraction of non-essential data and guides workers to better process visibility, better decision making and improved safety.Continue Reading

Safety risk management is a key component of any safety management system (SMS) and involves identifying safety hazards to your operations and assessing the risks and mitigating them.Continue Reading

The Health and Safety (H&S) Assurance function is responsible for monitoring the appointed Principal Contractors and Elected Clients against key criteria including: Legislation and associated best practice guidance Approved and Joint Codes of Practice The Works Information (contractual arrangements) documentContinue Reading

The term ‘safety argument’ is sometimes used as a synonym for the safety case. Here, we use the safety argument to mean that part of the safety case combines the safety evidence, showing that the evidence is sufficient to demonstrate that the system is acceptably safe.Continue Reading

The safety management system is a formal, top-down, organization-wide approach to managing safety risk and assuring the effectiveness of safety risk controls.Continue Reading

Safety measures are activities and precautions carried out to reduce the probability of hazard occurrence and increase safety or protection.Continue Reading

A safety case’s intent is to provide a straightforward, thorough, and logically consistent argument, backed up by evidence, that an item is free of unacceptable risk when used in the proper context.Continue Reading