SORM
Safety Override Risk Management
Interlocks and Overrides, Critical Equipment and Barrier Management
Yokogawa’s RAP4 Safety Override Risk Management (SORM) solution offers visibility and highlighting of:
- current, future and historical permitting workload
- “overload risk”.
It also provides additional dashboarding and reporting functionality specific to these to ensure operational risk management for process safety.
System | Features
Through the years Yokogawa RAP have enabled our customers to monitor critical aspects of their plant. These could be the monitoring of:
- Interlocks and Overrides (IOR’s)
- Management of critical valve downtime allowance such as for
- Pressure Relief testing (PR testing)
- Offline time for partial stroke work with emergency Shutdown Valves (EDS’s)
- Bypass line routing whilst the main line is closed for maintenance
- Downtime on critical alarms
- Monitoring line blind (or spade) insertion
- Air gap presence
Other features
- Interlock and Override Tracking, tracks permit work involving Interlocks and Overrides or other highly critical work items set by the user
- Environmental Tracking: Tracks jobs that may be subject to environmental conditions
- Critical Equipment and Barrier Tracking, tracks permit work involving Pressure Relief or other highly critical work items set by the user
- Expired Permits: Tracks expired & non-returned permits to improve site visibility or which ones, where and who still has them
Benefits
- Gain a full and quick understanding of site activities
- Enhanced understanding of sources of risk to prevent incidents and accidents
- Reduce risk exposure
- Log all Interlocks and Overrides
- Risk Assess individual cases using standard or customised techniques
- Establish which Safety Barriers you wish to consider and monitor and control any threats to them
- Fully competence based
- Can be used for any temporary change
- Fully configurable assessment of risk for every change
Reporting
Reporting in RAP4 allows the user to create and run reports using current and historical data derived from all Job, Task, Isolation and Personnel activity in RAP. For example, a report could be created showing all permits completed in an area over a given time period.
Turnaround
The speed at which permits can be issued during turnarounds can have a large effect upon overall performance, with any delays in issuing impacting upon the time taken to get the job done. RAP’s upfront planning capability, its flexible rules and barcode controls greatly enhance this process giving potential for large savings.
E-Learning
Yokogawa’s RAP4 eLearning portal offers training to workers in an organisation for all modules, Permit to Work, Isolations, and Administration. The portal will enable basic users to receive training in basic tasks.
Risk Assessment
Robust Risk Assessment identifying all hazards present in the workplace that have the potential to cause harm enabling the necessary control measures to mitigate the risk.