Connecting the Desktop to the Field for better Risk and Hazard Awareness at the Job Site

Sean Wilson – Wolters Kluwer Enablon

Risk awareness and safety management of industrial facilities involves the identification, evaluation, and control of potential risks and hazards that could lead to accidents or incidents. Traditionally, this has been done through process hazard analysis (PHA) techniques, which involve identifying potential hazards and their consequences, and developing controls to mitigate these risks.Tomorrows approach combines PHA, bowtie analysis, and cumulative risk visualization. Through a common integration of these techniques, it is possible to recontextualize the way risks are assessed and managed, providing a more comprehensive and dynamic view of the risks associated with an activity or task.The approach uses PHA to identify potential hazards and their consequences and share them to bowties to represent the links between hazards, threats, and controls. These bowties are then used to identify areas of cumulative risk, which are visualized. By this incredible combination of techniques and tools, a highly efficient and holistic view of the risks can be better understood. We believe this approach will drastically improve awareness and safety management practices and noticeably reduce the risk of accidents and incidents in industrial facilities.