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Typically most organisations use paper based or basic digitised permit to work systems (PTW) to control work that occurs when People Interact with the Plant. Work is managed on a job by job basis independent of other jobs on the plant. The system is used as the form of control to authorise work on their plant safely, integrating it with ongoing plant operations. Traditionally, the permits are paper forms where tasks are described, hazards and controls specified and relevant authorities have to sign before work can commence. Some form of risk assessment, where hazards are identified and controls specified will accompany these forms, such as a Task Risk Assessment (TRA) or Job Safety Analysis (JSA) and where necessary a separate Isolation scheme (LOTO – lock out tag out) will be referenced.
To appreciate the scale of the Interaction of People with the Plant, there can be thousands to tens of thousands of work permits, isolations, overrides carried out each month. The volume of work involves from hundreds to thousands of core staff, primary contractors and additional contractors intervening in the plant on a daily basis to do repair and maintenance work. To think that such prevalent processes in the riskiest part of operations are still managed with paper forms in triplicate is somewhat surprising given the potential consequences and the impact on operational risk and performance.
While individual jobs in the plant are independently risk assessed and authorized, there are dependencies and interactions between jobs that need to be taken into consideration in order to reduce the potential overall cumulative risk of the combined jobs. Typical paper based permit systems and even digitised processes fall short in this area. They do not collect data in a consistent and efficient manner, nor do they allow users to manage work holistically across the plant, as they are focused on independently managing the lifecycle of each controlled job. While they provide a limited form of on the ground control, they are often deemed to be “adequate” in many organisations. However, they do not generate real data nor a window into on-going work and most importantly, they create a false sense of security regarding how operational risk is being managed across the organisation. Management is left without a means to measure performance and is severely limited in their ability to reduce risk and improve performance across the organisation.
Petrotechnics systems provide enterprise capabilities to intelligently embed corporate, regional and local policies and processes ensuring they are consistently delivered in frontline practice. Frontline work processes such as permit to work, risk assessments and isolation management are fully integrated providing a system of record for frontline work execution data. The systems incorporate clear process flows for request and approval of work, a direct link to relevant Operating Procedures, readily-accessible archives of previous work (including lessons learned) and area, site and plant-level overview of all controlled work by approval stage, location, time, type and risk level. This ensures people are guided to the correct operational decisions appropriate to the actual conditions and context of the work at hand.
Best practices can be consistently applied whether these are rules, regulations, processes or lessons learned not only providing safety and assurance benefits but also delivering efficiency gains, better ways of working, improved organisational knowledge and reduced administration. Frontline workers can make better operational decisions to deliver safe and efficient operations through the use of technology. By using the system as a delivery channel to the workforce, relevant and contextually appropriate operating procedures, safety alerts, lessons learned and incident and accident information can be made readily available. This provides senior management with the confidence gained from enhanced control over their global frontline operations.
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Traditionally frontline supervisors in hazardous industries have been provided with limited resources, tools and often paper based systems to get day to day operational risk right. While most organisations have clear standards for simultaneous operations in terms of what work can be done at the same time, frontline supervisors are often left to independently juggle risk. They work to get the balance right between the type of work, the volume of work and the perceived cumulative risk of the work according to their interpretation of corporate or regional standards. For all practical purposes the single greatest area of operational risk, the Interaction of People with the Plant is tackled by individual competency.
Frontline supervisors work in a dynamic, high pressure, often ad hoc and production driven environment. Paper based systems or basic digitised processes provide little embedded process rigour and even less structure and guidance to improve decision making. The dynamic nature of the frontline operational environment often necessitates additional and emergent work, permits, isolations, risk assessments and other factors than what is included in the original plan from the maintenance management or planning system. This safe work plan accounts for the rich detail associated with “all of the job” and “all of the jobs”.
It is not unusual for 20 or more independent jobs to be in progress simultaneously within a defined area. While these individual tasks may have been independently risk assessed and authorised, there are dependencies and interactions between the jobs that need to be taken into consideration in order to reduce the potential overall risk of the combined jobs. Although organisations may have issued guidelines in rulebooks and best practices and provide ongoing training, frontline supervisors have few tools to ensure they get the balance between risk and performance right.
Petrotechnics’ systems provide enterprise capabilities to deploy a set of dynamic visualisation tools to optimise work in time, in space and the risk across your operations. The visualisation of the “actual” plan reflecting the frontline realities provides our people who issue, review and approve work further assistance to both structure and improve their decision making. It provides visible conflict detection capabilities to ensure that certain combinations of work are flagged to supervisors as well as hard rules to prevent specific combinations of work from occurring at the same time (e.g. Hot Work and Breaking Containment). These conflict detection rules can be based on corporate, regional or local intent to ensure policies are consistently applied across operations.
The systems in use provide the Frontline supervisors the ability to see the level of risk they are carrying on any given day for the work they have planned. By moving jobs on the safe work plan in time, they can see the impact of the change positively or negatively in terms of the overall cumulative risk for the shift or day. This capability empowers the organisation as a whole and provides senior management with the peace of mind that their employees have the tools to proactively manage down risk while optimising performance.
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In organisations in hazardous industries there are thousands of People per day interacting with the Plant to do repair and maintenance work. This work often results in the introduction of new hazards, inhibiting safety systems, isolating parts of the plant and interfering with standard operating procedures. Organisations have invested great sums of time, effort and money in improving their planning and maintenance systems and processes in an effort to optimise operational efficiency.
More often than not the expected return in terms of reducing maintenance backlogs, improving plan attainment and optimising plan accuracy fail to materialise. The failure to reap the benefits of operational efficiency are not due to lack of investment or attention. Organisations understand what the benefits of increased operational efficiency can provide them in terms of cost reduction and performance optimisation. When we look closer at expected versus actual wrench time as well as plan accuracy and attainment details, we can see how the critical gap in the operational assurance loop impacts the efficiency of any organisation.
Organisations face a fundamental challenge with activity planning for their frontline operations. There is always a difference between the plan and the actuals. The work plan by its very nature cannot contain all the activities required to safely execute the job and manage the interaction of all the jobs. The dynamic nature of the frontline environment often necessitates additional work, permits, isolations, risk assessments and other factors than what is included in the original plan from the maintenance management or planning systems.
The original job scheduled for 6-8 hours may in fact take 2 days as equipment may need to be isolated and de-isolated, scaffolding may need to be built and schedules optimised to account for contractors. This safe work plan accounts for “all of the job” and “all of the jobs” detail, which only onsite personnel can complete. Typically all of the rich detail of what it actually takes to do the job is lost and not fed back into the planning system due to the critical gap in the assurance loop.
Proscient provides organisations with the ability to close the gap in the IT operations backbone. Jobs can be imported from planning or maintenance management systems, risk assessed, converted to the full safe work scope, scheduled and optimised in the safe work plan and then controlled and managed through execution. The rich details regarding each job and its actuals can then be fed back into the planning or maintenance management systems to complete the operational assurance loop. For the first time operations, planning and maintenance management can be provided with the appropriate inputs to optimise their plans thus improving plan accuracy and plan attainment moving forward. It provides a cycle of continuous improvement.
As Proscient intelligently embeds corporate, regional and local policies and processes ensuring they are consistently standardised delivered in frontline practice, the operational efficiency gains can be scaled across the organisation. Senior management can have greater certainty over what work can be achieved. By trending both the operational risk index and the safe work efficiency index it is possible to monitor how the organisation is simultaneously reducing risk and improving work efficiency. Proscient provides senior operations management, for the first time, the powerful lever to pull to drive continuous improvement of Plan Attainment and Plan Accuracy
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Organisations typically have rigorous corporate processes for process safety, occupational safety and people management. Policies, standards, systems and data in these areas provide indicators and feedback that close the assurance loop. In this way they have operational assurance the organisation’s strategic intent is linked to the execution of its critical business processes and improvement initiatives. The risk controls, work processes, best practices and guidance can take shape outside of the ‘rule book’ and become an integral part of routine operations. Data is generated and captured providing metrics and meaningful insight. This allows the organisation the clarity and confidence to improve decision making and drive continuous improvement.
However with the Interaction of the People with the Plant, the single biggest area of operational risk, there is a critical gap in the operational assurance loop. Although the Interaction typically has detailed policies and standards, organisations often rely on paper based systems or basic digitised processes. This creates a gap in the operational assurance loop as these systems do not provide data, meaningful metrics or feedback other than anecdotes and “look back” auditing. This critical gap impedes efforts to evaluate performance against best practices and consistently improve the related business processes.
Recognising this critical gap in operational assurance, Petrotechnics’ Proscient closes the loop in the riskiest part of operations. The system intelligently embeds corporate, regional and local policies and processes ensuring they are consistently delivered in frontline practice. This provides senior management with insight and oversight over their global frontline operations.
The system captures data as part of routine work processes such as type of work, volume of work, interaction of work and associated human factors. Common metrics of how work is performed and operational risk is managed can be established across operations. For the first time, the organisation has the means of understanding the relationship between delivering performance and operational risk. This data captured is then turned into meaningful insight providing clarity and confidence to improve decision making.
Proscient provides senior management with the tools to not only address the way operations are set up across the enterprise, but to ensure and vastly improve upon how the work is executed on a day-to-day basis. Having the right information at hand helps organisations to optimise operational efficiencies while improving operational performance. Policies and processes can be optimised and improved based on real data and meaningful insight, ensuring the organisation’s strategic intent is linked to the execution of its critical business processes and improvement initiatives. It is the ideal platform for organisations to close the operational assurance loop in the riskiest part of operations and to further embed a culture of continuous improvement.
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Traditionally in hazardous industries the biggest operational risk; the Interaction of People with the Plant is controlled and managed with systems based on paper forms in triplicate or with basic digitised processes. While in practice these systems are often perceived to be adequate, the direct consequence is they do not generate nor capture data. As a result the indicators that are available are typically lagging and “rear view” metrics based on an auditing process that is too infrequent, reactive and compliance driven.
As a result decision makers, from the frontline supervisors in the plants to senior management at a faraway corporate headquarters, lack real time visibility and the right data and information in their hands. For all practical purposes the single greatest area of operational risk is tackled by individual competency. Despite our best efforts to develop, issue and train on our best practices and corporate policies, we have no assurance with systems based on forms in triplicate or basic digitised processes to ensure that best practices are shared, lessons learned are delivered contextually and our people are guided to the most appropriate decision. Without data, we do not have the means to measure let alone improve operational performance.
Petrotechnics’ Proscient makes activity centric data available in a way that dramatically changes the way organisations in hazardous industries and their staff—from the frontline to the boardroom and everyone in between—can use information to drive transformational change, discovery, and innovation. The system captures data such as type, volume and the interaction of work and associated human factors as part of routine work processes. Common metrics can be established across operations to provide a common indicator of the operational risk associated with the work being performed. For the first time the organisation has the means of understanding the relationship between delivering performance and operational risk. The data captured is then turned into meaningful insight providing clarity and confidence to improve decision making.
Proscient’s Operational Intelligence capabilities provide decision makers at all levels of the organisation with the appropriate information and insight. This empowers structured decision making with the direct impact being the ability to reduce risk, better optimise work and improve overall performance. The real-time visibility of information and meaningful insight in the context of business performance and operational risk provides your staff the necessary operational intelligence to monitor, mitigate or act. For the first time, operational leaders can start to understand the relationship between performance and risk and proactively manage the organisation to a less risky and more optimised performance
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In all hazardous industries, stakeholder expectations of operational performance are rising exponentially. The uncertainty of today’s market climate whether from a specific or the combined impact of its geopolitical, economic, regulatory, environmental, social and operational perspectives has firmly established Health, Safety and Environmental risk management as a board level priority. While organisations recognise they must be able to deliver performance in a responsible and sustainable manner, they face many challenges to improve corporate governance and reduce risk.
The single biggest operational risk; the Interaction of People with the Plant, is a key area of focus for corporate governance due to its sheer size, scope and its direct impact on performance, stakeholder expectations and reputational risk. With thousands of People every day routinely intervening in Plant operations to do repair and maintenance work, introducing new hazards, inhibiting of safety systems, isolating parts of the plant and interfering with standard operating procedures, this area of operations is big and very risky. The governance challenge is further complicated as organisations typically use paper forms or basic digitised processes as their means of control in this area. Often these systems, which do not generate or capture data nor provide the means to measure progress outside of “look back” auditing, are seen as adequate or “good enough”. In the eyes of stakeholders, is good enough likely to represent a best effort?
Supermarket checkout operators have access to more technology than frontline technicians, yet the consequences of each making mistakes bears no comparison. Frontline operations have changed very little in the past 40 years making it very difficult for frontline workers to consistently make the right decisions without the right tools. As an industry, significant pressure is placed on the shoulders of those who issue and approve work based on a limited paper based system to get day to day operational risk right.
The key to managing stakeholder expectations is to demonstrate good governance and continuous improvement through the reduction of risk and optimization of performance. Petrotechnics’ Proscient Operational Performance & Predictive Risk platform provides organisations in hazardous industries the ability to achieve not only an appropriate compliance regime, but the ability to move beyond compliance in the riskiest part of their operations. It provides the means to ensure a shared view of the key operational risks of the Interaction of People with the Plant from the frontline to the boardroom.
Proscient is designed to provide the organisation the tools to not only address the way operations are set up across the enterprise, but to ensure and vastly improve upon how the work is executed on a day-to-day basis while providing the means to measure performance. It is the tangible force that organisations can use to improve operations and the methods by which performance is measured. Using Proscient, organisation’s can proactively manage down risk at the plant, asset, regional and enterprise levels while providing the necessary transparency and visibility for good governance.
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Continuous improvement is the key to optimising operational performance. With operational risk management a board level challenge across hazardous industries, stakeholder expectations of operational performance have never been higher. Organisations have placed increased focus on the development of policies, standards and practices and the associated training and competency development of their frontline operational employees. They recognise the biggest source of operational risk is the Interaction of People with the Plant. It can represent thousands of People per day, carrying out routine interventions in Plant operations to do repair and maintenance work often introducing new hazards, inhibiting safety systems, isolating parts of the plant and interfering with standard operating procedures.
Traditionally organisations address the need for continuous improvement through improvement initiatives, better rulebooks, more robust procedures and new metrics to measure progress. However, more often than not there is neither an increase in performance nor a noticeable decrease in the number of HiPo’s, incidents and fatalities. Frontline operations have changed very little in the past 40 years yet; workforce culture or the people problem is often cited as the issue. Without the right tools, it is very difficult for frontline workers to consistently make the right decisions let alone improve operational performance.
The root of the problem lies with a critical gap in the operational assurance loop. Many organisations still rely on systems based on paper forms in triplicate or basic digitisation of work processes as their form of control in this critical area. Without the means to ensure corporate, regional and local processes are embedded, automated and managed in a consistent manner there is no way to capture data. How can you improve what you cannot measure? Without data captured from routine working in this critical area of operational risk you cannot measure progress.
Petrotechnics’ Proscient is the ideal platform on which you can close the critical gap in the operational assurance loop and build a culture of continuous improvement within your operations. Your corporate, regional and local policies and processes can be embedded; automated and managed ensuring standardised practices across your organisation. Extracting insight from data captured as a part of routine work across your operations allows the optimisation of the operational assurance loop and improved decision making.
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In any organisation in hazardous industries there are three primary elements; the plant, the people and the interaction between the people and the plant. The interaction of the people with the plant represents millions of man hours per year for the typical organisation and thousands of people every day who routinely intervene in plant operations to do repair and maintenance work. This work often results in the introduction of new hazards, inhibiting safety systems, isolating parts of the plant and interfering with standard operating procedures. The interaction of people on the plant equals operating risk. Therefore it’s not surprising the interaction of the people with the plant is the leading cause of high potential incidents (HiPo’s), second leading cause of fatalities and a significant contributing factor in process safety incidents.
Workforce culture or the people problem is often cited as the cause but is there a deeper underlying issue? Organisations typically have rigorous corporate processes for the plant and the people with systems and data that provide indicators and close the assurance loop. In this way they have operational assurance their policies are being followed and the means and the data to measure status and progress. However, when thousands of people interact with the plant every day to do repair or maintenance work, there are limited systems and often only paper based processes. This leaves a critical gap in the assurance loop with no feedback on performance. Organisations can only judge performance after the event, i.e. with lagging indicators and audit
In other assurance loops, policy is delivered through practices that are embedded in digital systems. The interaction of people with the plant relies on the frontline decision making and adherence to policies and procedures. The gap is only exacerbated when placed against a backdrop of a live process plant where production needs to be maintained, multiple jobs are being managed simultaneously with different hazards and a mix of employees and contractors with varying degrees of experience and competency.
It is a very difficult environment to consistently make the right decisions and adhere to policies with legacy paper based systems. Furthermore, with paper based systems there is no ability to assure that policies are delivered and executed in a consistent manner in operational practice nor is there is any feedback data on performance against standards and operational targets.
Recognising this critical gap in operational assurance, Petrotechnics’ Proscient closes the loop in the riskiest part of operations. The system intelligently embeds corporate, regional and local policies and processes ensuring they are consistently delivered in frontline practice. This provides senior management with insight and oversight over their global frontline operations.
The system captures data as part of routine work processes such as the type of work, volume of work, interaction of work and associated human factors. Common metrics can be established across operations to provide a common indicator of the operational risk associated with the work being performed. For the first time the organisation has the means of understanding the relationship between delivering performance and operational risk. The captured data is then turned into meaningful insight providing clarity and confidence to improve decision making.
Proscient provides senior management the tools to not only address the way operations are set up across the enterprise, but to ensure and vastly improve upon how the work is executed on a day-to-day basis while providing the means to measure performance. It is the ideal platform for organisations to further embed a culture of continuous improvement within their operations.
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Organisations operating in the upstream sector of the oil & gas industry have utilised Petrotechnics solutions for over 10 years to manage and control work, increase efficiency and improve safety across their global operations. Our clients have recognised the benefits that our solution delivers at diverse, remote and extreme locations from the Gulf of Mexico to Sakhalin Island.
Leveraging the data collected as part of routine work, Petrotechnics utilises systems and technologies to transform business processes and operations. Petrotechnics' Proscient Operational Performance and Predictive Risk platform enables organisations to deliver the most up to date regulation and best practice directly to the frontline, while the embedded rigour ensures that these procedures are followed. Furthermore, the technology provides the means to capture frontline data which can be used to measure how well the policies are implemented.
Petrotechnics benefits for:
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The midstream oil & gas sector faces unique challenges when managing work activities. Significant complexities arise as operations run through remote or hostile terrains; crossing mountains and bridging rivers, covering hundreds of kilometres and crossing regional and geographic boundaries. In addition to geographical and topographical problems, pipeline communication systems differ considerably around the world, particularly in rural and remote areas where communications often vary along the route of the operations. Although remote from operational centres, pipelines and their supporting network, such as pumping stations, are subject to the same work control requirements as other hazardous industry sites.
Introducing technology to implement procedures and processes across the pipeline network can deliver significant efficiency and safety benefits. Petrotechnics' Proscient Operational Performance and Predictive Risk solution provides a consistent approach for scheduling and managing work across the network, giving the assurance, visibility and operational integrity needed to ensure that frontline work is carried out in conformance to Operator and Industry standards. The unprecedented visibility and real time updates of operations being carried out across the network allows conflicting work to be identified immediately and reducing the likelihood of SIMOPS clashes that can lead to incidents.
Our solutions have been designed for, implemented and proven in remote and hazardous environments within the midstream sector, including:
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With electronic risk management and safety systems becoming more and more of a crucial and integral practice, along with employees moving from asset to asset, we understand the requirements to formally recognise the growing number of frontline workers and user authorities in the workplace.
Petrotechnics Certification for your own trainers allows organisational improvement and sustainability by developing sufficient in-house competence to allow you to build and develop your own trainers.
The current available certifications are:
Which one you aim for will depend on your job function and requirement within the organisation. To become certified you will need to be assessed by a qualified Petrotechnics trainer.
Pre-requisites:
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As experienced professionals with a background in hazardous industry frontline management, qualified Petrotechnics Training Consultants bring together their understanding of frontline work, global application of frontline best practices and in depth knowledge of our products.
We pride ourselves on using our years of experience to help system users and other trainers to be more effective. We can show newly appointed in-house trainers how to maximise their impact and we can help experienced trainers to develop their skills further.
Our unique methodology can help maximise effectiveness and reduce overall costs.
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Petrotechnics provide other specific training for those carrying out risk assessment and isolation activities:
Best Practice training and coaching in risk assessment techniques and hazard management
Training technical authorities and selected personnel to lead teams and provide accurate assessments of operational risk, appropriate control and interface with management of change processes.
Isolation procedure classroom and coaching in the field for isolation implementation, lockout and tagout, reinstatement and recording of status.
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The aim of the course is for the delegate(s) to achieve classroom competency in the use of Administrator User Database and be able to support ISSOW users.
Delegates are assessed through practical exercises.
The target audience includes those who will be required to provide an ISSOW administration role at either Installation or Node Administrator level.
Courses normally take place over a 3 day period and are Instructor Led. The courses can be available as a 1 day course to those who have been trained to Level 2 previously.
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The aim of the course is for the delegate(s) to achieve classroom competency in the management of day to day operations of Sentinel PRO®
The course typically covers the following topics:
A formal assessment process is included to demonstrate delegates understanding of ISSOW and the taught material. The target audience ( typically Area Authority, Isolating Authority, Department Head or Site Controller/OIM) includes those who in their normal day to day duties carry out or delegate any of the following:
Courses normally take place over a 2 day period and are Instructor Led. The course can be available as a Level 1 internet based eLearning course followed by a one day Level 2 instructor led classroom course.
Delegates are expected to have basic IT skills.
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The aim of the course is for delegate(s) to achieve an understanding of Sentinel PRO and how to create, authorise and implement isolations.
The course covers the following topics:
A formal assessment process is included to demonstrate delegates understanding of ISSOW and the taught material.
The target audience ( typically Isolating Authority) includes those who in their normal day to day duties may be required to apply isolations.
Courses normally take place over a half day period and are instructor led.
Delegates are expected to have successfully completed the Level 1 Performing Authority course prior to attending this course.
Delegates are expected to have basic IT skills.
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The aim of this course is for the delegate(s) to achieve classroom competency in the use of Sentinel PRO® as a Performing Authority.
The course covers the following topics:
A formal assessment process is included to demonstrate delegates understanding of Sentinel PRO® and the taught material.
The target audience ( typically Performing Authority) include those who in their normal day to day duties are required to:
Available via internet based eLearning or Instructor Led Classroom Course.
Delegates are expected to have basic IT skills.
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The aim of this course is for work party members (i.e Permit Users) and those who need to be aware of the core of the Sentinel PRO® system.
The ISSOW Awareness course covers the following topics:
Available via internet based eLearning. This course takes approximatley 30 minutes to complete.
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Proscient is an enterprise Operational Performance and Predictive Risk platform that provides senior management in hazardous industries with the ability to reduce risk, optimise performance, drive continuous improvement and move beyond compliance across their global operations. Proscient provides peace of mind your organisation has the ability to deliver performance while reducing uncertainty in a key area of operational risk, the Interaction of People with the Plant.
Proscient closes the critical gap in the assurance loop in the riskiest part of operations. The system intelligently embeds corporate, regional and local policies and processes ensuring they are consistently delivered in frontline operational practice. Proscient addresses not only the way operations are set up across the enterprise, but ensure and vastly improve upon how the work is executed on a day-to-day basis while providing the means to measure performance. It is the ideal platform for organisations to further embed a culture of continuous improvement within their operations.
The system captures data such as type of work, volume of work, interaction of work and associated human factors as part of routine work processes. Common metrics can be established across operations to provide a common indicator of the operational risk associated with the work being performed. For the first time, the organisation has a common means of understanding the relationship between delivering performance and operational risk. This data captured is then turned into meaningful insight providing clarity and confidence to improve decision making.
Proscient’s Operational Intelligence capabilities provide decision makers at all levels of the organisation with the appropriate information and insight to empower structured decision making. The direct impact is the ability to reduce risk, better optimise work and improve overall performance. The real-time visibility of information and meaningful insight in the context of business performance and operational risk provides your staff with the necessary operational intelligence to monitor, mitigate or act. For the first time, operational leaders can start to understand the relationship between performance and risk and proactively manage the organisation to a less risky and more optimised performance.
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Our products provide organisations in hazardous industries with the platform to reduce risk, optimise operations, drive continuous improvement and the ability to move beyond compliance in the riskiest part of operations, the Interaction of People with the Plant. They can be the tangible force that your organisation uses to improve and transform operations, the methods by which performance and risk reduction is measured and provide the necessary transparency and visibility for good governance. This providessenior management with increased confidence the organisation can deliver performance in a responsible and sustainable manner.
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The key to managing increasing stakeholder expectations is to demonstrate good governance and the ability to deliver performance in a responsible and sustainable manner. Our solutions help organisations respond to the challenges of improving operational performance, while reducing risk and providing line of sight on the riskiest part of operations. We provide senior management in hazardous industries with the tools to not only address the way operations are set up across the enterprise but the tailored services and the training and coaching to ensure maximum value is achieved, from the frontline to the boardroom.
Working collaboratively with clients, our solutions provide organisations in hazardous industries with peace of mind that they have the ability to deliver on performance, while reducing uncertainty in a key area of operational risk; the Interaction of People with the Plant. Your organisation can use our solutions to close the critical gap in the assurance loop for the Interaction of the People with the Plant and reduce risk, optimise performance, drive continuous improvement and move beyond compliance.
We provide expert analysis, business planning, vision development, project planning, business case creation, and ultimately link the strategic intent of your policies, procedures and standards to operational practice in ways that build continuous improvement and success. Our consultants have built a long track record of client engagement success. Together with our award winning software solutions, proven methodologies and on the ground experience of helping our clients transform their frontline business processes and achieve greater operational efficiency and improved risk management, we act as trusted operational advisors to our clients worldwide.
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Petrotechnics’ solutions provide organisations in hazardous industries peace of mind that they have the ability to deliver on performance while reducing uncertainty in a key area of operational risk; the interaction of people with the plant. Your organisation can use our solutions to close the critical gap in the assurance loop for the interaction of the people with the plant and reduce risk, optimise performance, drive continuous improvement and move beyond compliance.
In any organisation in hazardous industries there are three primary elements; the Plant, the People and the Interaction between the People and the Plant. The Interaction of the People with the Plant represents millions of man hours per year for the typical organisation and thousands of people every day who routinely intervene in plant operations to do repair and maintenance work. This work often results in the introduction of new hazards, inhibiting safety systems, isolating parts of the plant and interfering with standard operating procedures. The Interaction of People on the Plant equals operating risk.
Its therefore it’s not surprising the Interaction of the People with the Plant is:
Workforce culture or the people problem is often cited as the cause but is there a deeper underlying issue?
Organisations typically have rigorous corporate processes for the Plant and the People with systems and data that provide indicators and close the assurance loop. In this way, they have operational assurance their policies are being followed and the means and the data to measure status and progress. However, when thousands of People interact with the Plant every day to do repair or maintenance work, there are limited systems and often only paper based processes. This leaves a critical gap in the assurance loop with no feedback on performance. Organisations can only judge performance after the event, i.e. with lagging indicators and audit.
Petrotechnics helps organisations close the critical gap in the assurance loop for the Interaction of People with the Plant.
You can use our solutions to intelligently embed corporate, regional and local policies and processes ensuring they are consistently delivered in frontline practice across your operations. You can extract insight from data captured as a part of routine work across your operations, providing you the means to optimise the operational assurance loop. This provides senior management with insight and oversight over the riskiest part of operations.
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Sentinel PRO® is an Integrated Safe System of Work (ISSOW) solution that manages frontline work execution, linking permit to work with the risk assessment and isolation management processes to create a fully integrated Control of Work System. It provides an effective solution to the challenges in the unstructured and dynamic nature of managing operations, maintenance and associated activity in the hazardous process industries.
The systems incorporate clear process flows for request and approval of work, a direct link to relevant Operating Procedures, readily-accessible archives of previous work (including lessons learned) and area, site and plant-level overview of all controlled work by approval stage, location, time, type and risk level. This ensures people are guided to the correct operational decisions appropriate to the actual conditions and context of the work at hand.
Rules, procedures and standards can be operationalised within the system to provide enhanced and structured decision making around risk assessment requirements, permit usage, isolations and operational risk assessments. Approval levels are either built-in to the process flow or handled by interaction of the relevant plant authorities as required.
Frontline workers are the first to embrace and flourish within the embedded process rigour and clear boundaries that Sentinel PRO® provides. By establishing consistency with regard to the working conditions in which they are operating, the familiarity with systems and processes reduces risk. Sentinel PRO® ensures that the company policies and practices are actually being used on the ground and are effective as work cannot be done without using the system.
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From crude supply, trading and refining through to product distribution, marketing and retail, the downstream sector is broad and faces the same pressures as the upstream and midstream sectors to deliver in terms of safety, productivity and efficiency.
As global demand continues to increase, operators in the downstream sector are under pressure to find new ways to work smarter, more efficiently and have the ability to react quickly to new legislation. While many recognise that behavioural change, commitment from senior management, oversight and pro-active decision making is a key factor in improving and achieving safety targets; there is a challenge in equipping organisations with the right tools and technology required to support this and address new forms of enterprise safety and risk issues.
Petrotechnics’ Proscient delivers operational assurance and predictive risk indicators for hazardous frontline activities while addressing key Process Safety Management requirements. Our solutions enable downstream operators to shift to a pro-active, predict and prevent culture, providing the ultimate solution for cost-effective, safer, and maximised operational performance.
Our solutions have been implemented and proven across a range of downstream operations, including:
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Companies operating across hazardous industries are under pressure from stakeholders to reduce operational risk and improve performance in the light of increased regulatory requirements. Increasing pricing pressures from up and coming geographies is driving the requirement to increase production efficiency across the chemicals industry and companies continue to strive to improve HSE records by providing safer environments for workers.
Chemical companies can benefit from Petrotechnics’ extensive experience of managing work in hazardous industry to address these challenges. In any organisation in hazardous industries there are three primary elements; the Plant, the People and the Interaction between the People and the Plant. In the assurance loops for the plant and the people, policy is delivered through practices that are embedded in digital systems. A gap is created in the interaction of people with the plant as it relies on the frontline decision making and adherence to policies and procedures.
Recognising this critical gap in operational assurance, Petrotechnics’ Proscient closes the loop in the riskiest part of operations. The system intelligently embeds corporate and regulatory policies and processes ensuring they are consistently delivered in frontline practice. Chemical companies using the tool have the ability to achieve not only an appropriate compliance regime, but the ability to move beyond compliance in the riskiest part of their operations. It provides the means to ensure a shared view of the key operational risks of the Interaction of People with the Plant from the frontline to the boardroom.
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Engineering Procurement and Construction contractors are responsible for designing, procuring materials and constructing new plants. Involvement in projects can include everything from project definition and Front End Engineering Design through to pre-commissioning and start-up. In addition to being responsible for creating the Plant’s operating procedures, EPC’s are required to test the plant systems and they will be responsible for or supervise the pre-commissioning and commissioning of the plant.
In order to carry out testing of systems, pre-commissioning and the commissioning of the plant, EPC’s will be required to interfere with their safe operating procedures. It is the Interaction of People on the Plant that carries operational risk. Petrotechnics Proscient platform enables EPC’s to plan and manage this work to ensure that these activities are carried out safely. By using our Operational Performance and Predictive Risk solution during this phase, EPC’s have the ability to embed operating procedures and ensuring that they are followed when the plant operations is handed back to the Owner.
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Operational Safety and Risk Management are now Board Level priorities in the oil & gas Industry. Stakeholder expectations have led to intense scrutiny, placing a spotlight on the industry worldwide as the challenge of increased production in response to the global demand whilst reducing risk, appear at odds with one another.
Petrotechnics technology intelligently embeds, automates and manages frontline work processes, connecting corporate policy into routine practice across the oil & gas industry. Proscient Operational Performance and Predictive Risk enables organisations to utilise the data collected at the frontline, giving Operators the means to measure and extract meaningful insight into how the organisation is performing.
Our unique software can be deployed in remote locations and extreme environments across the industry. A highly experienced team of project managers who have previously worked within hazardous industries have a true understanding of the challenges faced by operators. This knowledge and experience enables Petrotechnics to deliver unparalleled support and expertise throughout, and beyond project execution.
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Depending on your business requirements, we can offer various courses to suit your needs.
If you are not sure which course is the most suitable, do not hesitate to contact one of our Support Team who can help you decide on the best option.
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To book a course, please contact the Support Team.
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Our Courses are designed to meet the needs of your business, team and individuals.
We can help you create a comprehensive training plan, manage your talent and enable end users, using our market leading learning software. No matter what your particular area of need, offerings from Petrotechnics can help you run your business better.
Taking a flexible approach and supporting the implementation of our products, we can provide the most convienent training solution for you.
The successful and intuitive courses are delivered in the following formats:
Please contact our Support Team for information on course availibility and to book a course.
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Our team of experts and consultants at Petrotechnics can bring you an unrivalled service, with over 20 years of project management experience and industry specific knowledge, best practices and process.
Working collaboratively with clients, our solutions provide organisations across hazardous industries with peace of mind that they have the ability to deliver on performance, while reducing uncertainty in a key area of operational risk; the Interaction of People with the Plant.
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With Operational Risk Management a board level challenge in hazardous industries, stakeholder expectations of operational performance have never been higher. The key to managing these expectations is to demonstrate good governance and the ability to deliver performance in a responsible and sustainable manner. Organisations must deal with the challenges of improving operational performance while reducing risk and have the means to measure and demonstrate progress.
We provide senior management in hazardous industries with the tools to not only address the way operations are set up across the enterprise, but to ensure and vastly improve upon how the work is executed on a day-to-day basis. Using our solutions, your organisation can intelligently embed, automate and manage your frontline work processes, while giving you the means to turn data captured as a part of routine working into meaningful insight and operational intelligence. This empowers structured decision making, improving your ability to reduce risk, better optimise work and enhance overall performance.
The real-time visibility of information and meaningful insight in the context of business performance and operational risk provides your staff the necessary operational intelligence to monitor, mitigate or act. For the first time, operational leaders can start to understand the relationship between performance and risk and proactively manage the organisation to a less risky and more optimised performance.
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At Petrotechnics our training curriculum is structured around you and how you control frontline work activities. Our courses are delivered in a varierty of methods from self paced e-learning to instructor led classes.
Whether you are a new or existing Petrotechnics customer, we have a training program to meet your needs.
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In today's global and crowded marketplace, there are many vendors and countless solutions and products to choose from in order to integrate into your solution portfolio. We realise that your Clients trust in your expertise to provide them with the best solutions to meet their specific requirements. At Petrotechnics we understand this reality and for us, “partnering” truly is a competitive advantage. The formation of strong, enduring relationships with our consulting, risk management and systems integration partners is an essential element of our core business strategy.
Petrotechnics’ partner program enables partners to meet challenges of today’s ever changing business environment and business demands. Through mutually beneficial partnerships, each party’s resource, expertise and reputation are leveraged to deliver greater value to customers. Partners are at the core of how we go to market, support our solutions and ultimately succeed.
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At Petrotechnics we are looking for people with special blend of expertise, personality and tenacity to join our team. If you would like to join an award winning company, with product and solution offerings that are unrivalled in the market-place and market share that is growing by the day, contact us. You’ll join a team of smart and passionate people who are committed to the delivery of our core value of ‘Keeping More People Safe’ across hazardous industries.
We look forward to hearing from you.
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Petrotechnics has pioneered, proven and successfully helped organisations at more than 350 sites, in 22 countries across hazardous industries to increase operational efficiency and improve safety in the riskiest parts of their operations.
Our customers benefit from the direct and tangible ROI associated with increased production, a significantly safer frontline work environment and the hard benefits directly related to getting more work done safely.
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Over the past 12 years, Petrotechnics has pioneered, proven and successfully delivered solutions that transform how work is carried out at the frontline.
While hazardous industries are extremely good at optimising how work is planned and how production is achieved; many organisations rely on paper based triplicate forms or digitized permit systems to manage frontline work. The result is that much of the work is unplanned, reacting to local needs and priorities and a lack of valuable work execution data.
Petrotechnics recognised that the industry could be transformed by using technology to link people and process and this fresh approach could contribute to greater efficiency and increased safety with improved operational expenditure.
Our solution is used on a daily basis by more than 50,000 users and is transforming the effectiveness and performance of frontline operations at over 350 sites in more than 22 countries around the globe.
Our successes have also been recognised in the form of the following awards:
European Business Awards 2008
Winners for Growth Strategy of the Year award
National Business Awards for Scotland 2007
Winners Danwood Growth Strategy of the Year award
Offshore Energy Achievement Awards 2005
Winner of the Health Safety & Environment award
Scottish Offshore Achievement Awards 2005
Commended in the Health Safety Environment Innovation category
Institution of Chemical Engineers Awards 2003
Winner of the Award for Excellence in Health and Safety
Scottish Enterprise Scottish Software Awards 2003
Winner of Software Product of the Year for Sentinel PRO®
Institute of Petroleum Awards 2002
Winner of the Information Technology Award for Sentinel PRO®
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Petrotechnics was founded with a vision to keep more people safe in hazardous industries. With Operational Risk Management a board level challenge, stakeholder expectations of operational performance have never been higher. The biggest source of operational risk is the interaction of people with the plant. It represents thousands of people per day and millions of hours per year of routine interventions in plant operations to do repair and maintenance work often introducing new hazards, inhibiting safety systems, isolating parts of the plant and interfering with standard operating procedures. Petrotechnics’ technology solutions can enable your organisation to intelligently embed, automate and manage your frontline work processes while giving you the means to measure and extract meaningful insight providing you with confidence your organisation has the ability to deliver on targets while removing uncertainty around this key area of operational risk.
Our Operational Performance & Predictive Risk solutions provide the ideal platform on which you can build a culture of continuous improvement within your operations. Your corporate, regional and local policies and processes can be embedded; automated and managed ensuring standardised practices across your organisation. Extracting insight from data captured as a part of routine work across your operations allows the optimisation of the operational assurance loop and improved decision making.
Our software solutions are the tangible force that your organisation can use to help improve operations and the methods by which performance is measured. With practical and meaningful data available to decision makers across your organisation for the first time can start to understand the relationship between performance and risk and proactively manage the organisation to less risky and more optimised performance. You can have peace of mind that your organisation can deliver targets in a responsible manner, reduce operational risk, drive continuous improvement and move beyond compliance.
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For client support enquiries during office hours you can contact us by email at: support@petrotechnics.com
Office Hours (UK time):
Monday to Thursday - 9am - 5pm
Friday – 9am - 4.30pm
In the case of an emergency, if you are a client and need to contact our Service Centre, please speak with your installation/node administrator and they will have the appropriate telephone number on which we can be contacted at any time.
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