in Enablon Vision
It is difficult to find the right balance
between maximizing productivity and
safety while being a dedicated corporate
citizen. Achieving this balance is
complicated by new regulations, innovative
technologies, and the need to train new
workers.
There are three main challenges to finding
this balance:
To overcome these challenges, organizations need a solution that identifies high-value intersections between EHS and operations. When an incident occurs, there should be a process to alert stakeholders that the incident took place and verify whether appropriate controls were both in place and effective. When these elements are unified with machine intelligence on a single software platform, organizations can turn data into action and share learnings across EHS and operations teams in a timely manner.
Enablon Vision is an integrated
solution for Risk, Environment, Health
and Safety (EHS) & Sustainability,
and Operations.
The Enablon Vision platform helps
organizations become responsible,
productive, and safe by supporting
corporate and operational goals.
The platform covers all key enterprise
and operational risk processes
in a single, comprehensive enterprise
solution.
EHS is typically a global- or corporate-
level function that ensures a company is
compliant with all regulatory bodies by
providing guidance, training, and processes
that impact operations.
The core priority for operations is to be
efficient, so taking time for training and
learning new processes can threaten
efficiency. If the operations team makes
changes in the field that are not
communicated with the EHS function, the
new work processes may inadvertently
compromise safety. Integrating EHS and
Operations makes sense because EHS
teams can update their policies based on
what is happening in the field, while
operations can continue to work safely
under the reliable support of the EHS team.
Having one platform interlinks and
integrates risk, EHS, and operations
workflows. The outcome of one process,
like Permit to Work, will trigger another
process, like Management of Change, which
reduces risk in the field by automatically
closing the feedback loop.
While incident investigation learnings may
be documented right away, it may take
1-8 months to share these learnings with
the rest of the organization. This increases
the risk for similar incidents to occur and
increases company liability.
On-time prevention solves this challenge.
Once an incident is documented in the EHS
investigations database, this information is
exchanged with Control of Work in real time
as front-line operators begin preparing a
work permit. Operators then can identify
more relevant hazards, add new controls,
and modify behaviors, based on the
learnings from these past incidents, in
order to prevent repeat incidents.
The traditional incident investigation
process is inefficient, manual and
challenging. Even when an investigator is
dispatched to perform root cause analysis
and document learnings, it takes time to
travel to impacted sites and collect all
the details. The collected data may be
inaccurate due to competing stories and
speaking to the wrong people.
Smart investigations overcome this
challenge. When an incident occurs, an
investigator starts an investigation and
searches for operational information, such
as permits to work, isolations, and overdue
actions initiated before the incident.
Important data, like training history, health
records, inspection logs, maintenance work,
assets, and isolation management are
instantly populated into the investigation
report. This process is more efficient,
preserves critical evidence, and results in
more accurate data collection.
Without comprehensive risk and control management, corporate teams often have little insight into how risks and barriers are
being managed globally. At the same time, operations must contend with constantly changing conditions on the site
that make tracking risk and barrier changes challenging and time-consuming. Barriers can degrade due to site-level
changes with little data or warning, increasing risk exposure.
With Barrier Management, organizations
can monitor the status of front-line barriers in real time, through live streams of data from external systems and IoT sensors,
which can be linked directly to bowtie and swiss cheese barriers. Integrated BowTieServer analysis provides a
dynamic view of barrier effectiveness and risk in critical scenarios in BowTieXP visualizations. Linked with Control
of Work, any changes in barrier status creates a heat map of the site, showing real-time risk in a color-coded plot plan for operations teams – simple
for everyone in the control room to understand. Real-time barrier monitoring with up-to-date information means operations teams can carefully plan work,
avoid conflicting permits and prevent incidents.
For a more global view of risk, 360° Risk and Control Management integrates insights from inspections, incidents,
shift logbooks, Management of Change, as well as data from BowTieServer, to offer enriched overviews of risks, hazards, and
controls throughout the organization – from the front line and up to corporate. Assurance professionals can use this view
to monitor the business’s cumulative risk more globally across the organization, instead of solely at the site operations
level. This leads to better, informed and well-timed decision-making to mitigate risk
and continuously monitor the effectiveness of all controls and barriers across the entire business, in one place.
On an integrated platform, operating procedures can be adjusted to be effective and applicable based on changing conditions in the field, and companies can make productive decisions based on real- time data. Without an integrated platform, EHS may be prone to create a process or training program based on information that may be outdated. With a combined platform, however, EHS teams can dynamically learn from information coming from field operations, which can prevent companies from making false assumptions that could harm workers and/or efficiency. Another benefit is the data in the platform is shared across business functions and no longer siloed. Siloed data tends to become stale in disparate systems, requiring extra time and effort to analyze. When departments across EHS and operations use a combined platform, decision-makers immediately see combined insights from the suite of applications, in the exact moment and context of their daily business processes. Businesses can cut out redundant data-gathering tasks and achieve a more efficient ROI on existing digital processes.