IPS’s Sustainable Safety solution takes a holistic and integrated approach to process safety management.  It takes safety beyond the traditional safety instrumented function and extends into everyday operations, maintenance and management. We can help provide a comprehensive set of process and functional safety management capabilities to establish a sustainable safety culture.

IPS’ Sustainable Safety solution focuses on four key areas:

1. People – minimizing the potentially serious Health, Safety or Environmental consequences for your assets and operations arising from human interaction with equipment and the plant

• Locate personnel in real-time with wireless people tracking solutions
• Provide safety information to the right person, at the right time, via remote web based tools to aid safe decision making
• Develop operator skills to deal with emergency conditions, alarm flood conditions, potentially unsafe conditions and making safe decision using operator training systems
• Train maintenance personnel and validate procedures through simulation before implementing on live plants
• Record competencies and skills of human assets so the qualified person is deployed for the activity, rather than the nearest or freely available
• Train engineers to TüV certified Functional Safety Engineer qualification status
• Remove human error from decision making processes using rules based engines and embedded procedures
• Engrain the safety culture in operations and maintenance activities

2. Process – procedures that follow internationally recognized safety lifecycle management standards (such as ISA84 and IEC61151), supported by regular safety audits and enforced by corporate safety management

• Use risk reduction methods at all stages of the project lifecycle
• Validate how practice differs from design
• Generate workflows and work instructions through condition management
• Ensure lifecycle services are in accordance with International standards such as IEC61511 including management of change
• Validate modifications using simulation before implementing on live plant

3. Technology – proven technology that drives proactive asset and safety knowledge management and is supported by best in class lifecycle management

• Present real-time safety data in contextual format to allow operations and maintenance to take action before events occur while keeping people away from dangerous areas
• Monitor SIF performance and dynamic performance measures, KPIs with online SIL calculation tools
• Produce asset safety reports and board level monitors
• Record inhibit and bypass information and produce reports for shift handovers with integrated asset management system
• Configure safety KPIs and performance indicators
• Attain the highest levels of safety and availability with SIL certified transmitters, valve positioners and SIS platforms
• Diagnose information from instruments and systems to extend proof test intervals
• Track instrument calibration dates, alarms and overdue activities that may have a safety impact
• Perform ‘offline’ SIL activities, such as Safety Integrity Level (SIL) determination and validation, quantitative risk and reliability analysis, incident and root cause analysis with loop management
• Ensure alarms provide an effective first layer of protection to ensure prompt, reliable and effective operator response
• Provide electronic information via wireless technology to field tablet PCs in interactive formats for maintenance activities
• Perform real world training with 3D interaction using immersive training systems

4. Support – promoting a strong worker involvement in safety policies with on-going safety training for both operations and maintenance using the latest training resources

• Ensure systems are operating at peak performance with asset lifecycle management
• Access the latest safety and product information via client web portal
• Participate in user to user exchanges at Safety User Groups that facilitate the sharing of knowledge and experience on interests, concerns and issues relating to safety

IPS is committed to ensuring that our clients' assets are safe, reliable and available to operate. Our industry knowledge and expertise combined with proven technology minimizes risk and ensures that the asset operates safely, in compliance with regulations and industry standards while protecting people, the environment and capital investments.  IPS’ certified global safety professionals and services provide the knowledge and expertise to effectively implement safer operations.