Safety Barriers
Online monitoring of the health of your Safety Barriers
Safety Barrier Health Monitoring by Eigen – Online monitoring of the health of your Safety Barriers and protective measures as required by the UK OGA and Norwegian PSA.
Eigen’s Safety Barrier Health Monitoring empowers users to perform effective Barrier Management, by capturing all the information necessary to assess the status of all barriers and deliver real time monitoring of barrier health and the overall risk posture.
Physical protection in heavy industry is essential, but confidence in that protection allows you to get on
with the job. With Safety barrier health monitoring from Eigen, you can see the real-time effectiveness of your safeguards at a glance, wherever you are.
Safety barrier health monitoring puts a powerful and intuitive digital dashboard at your fingertips, giving you an instant overview of barrier health and operational risk. Integrating seamlessly with your existing systems, your ability to monitor, predict and solve problems increases exponentially.
Slice the data however you want, to give you the
clarity you need. Safety barrier health monitoring from Eigen delivers transparency, insight and assurance for everyone from frontline engineers to boardroom overseers.
See your current risk status in real-time
A visual way to easily understand cumulative risk and drill down into the details.
Safety barrier health monitoring from Eigen
connects to existing systems and updates in realtime
to show you the current health of your Safety
Barriers.
1-click to find out more
Understanding the status is always just one click away.
Everything is interactive. Clicking on an object brings up Eigen’s unique Common Menu showing the reason for the status and provides a link to the source data in other systems.
Other tabs in the Common Menu give instant access to related data in other systems (if they are connected) such as data historians, document stores, maintenance systems etc.
Safety Barriers Multiple Views -
One source of truth
The application is built around a data model (or
Digital Twin) of the barriers and other related
information. The model can be viewed or “cut” in
different ways to present relevant views for different
people.
Status is derived from information across multiple different systems in real-time using a Digital Twin.
Risk assessments
Planned Maintenance
Safety Observations
Temporary Measures
Competency
Overrides and Inhibits
Device Alerts
Corrective Measures
Safety barrier health monitoring - Calculate Cumulative Risk
Company specific aggregation rules can be defined
to calculate the cumulative risk against any object
in the model.
Digital Twin of your Safety Barriers
The Digital Twin is data model (graph) that describes
how everything is related. It is built as a one-off
exercise from available information in other systems.
It can be added to and expanded over time.
Data Connectors
Safety barrier health monitoring from Eigen supports
all typical forms of data connectors including
REST APIs, RDBMS, Text files and manual entry for
connecting to systems such as Maximo, SAP, Aveva
Workmate, Synergi, Excel and control systems.
1. What is Safety Barrier Health Monitoring ?
Eigen’s Safety Barrier Health Monitoring empowers users to perform effective Barrier Management, by capturing all the information necessary to assess the status of all barriers and deliver real time monitoring of barrier health and the overall risk posture.
2. Why is Safety Barrier important?
Barriers against major accidents have always been in place in the oil and gas industry, but some major hazards have led to an increased focus on how these barriers are understood and followed up by the organisation. It is important for the operating organisation to assess, understand and develop proper barrier management in order to reduce risk exposure, prevent major accidents and achieve operational excellence.
3. How can Safety Barrier Health Monitoring help you?
A Safety Barrier Health Monitoring system can help visualise in real time the top risks in the facility, resulting from a combination of impaired barriers functions; the top priorities for different remediation teams; plan and execute compensating measures; address compliance with the different performance standards, and in general help users assess the overall facility risk posture and take action to improve it.
4. What is Safety Barrier Technology?
Monitoring the real time health of all the Safety Barriers for a large facility is a complex problem unsolvable without digital technology. Calculating the health of all safety barriers for all operational areas requires knowledge of the relationships between barrier elements, barrier functions, MAH areas, physical areas, systems, performance standards and other categories. It also requires direct connection to the sources of all barrier impairment and compensating measures data. Eigen’s Safety Barrier Health Monitoring technology incorporates all these elements.
5. What is Real Time Risk Management?
Real time risk management is achieved when safety barrier impairment and compensating measures status are periodically updated from source systems of record, such as control systems, maintenance systems, safety incident records and training records to provide an up to date picture of the overall risk of the facility. An order of magnitude better than monthly updates of an Excel sheet!
Eigen’s Safety Barrier Health Monitoring system implements a true real time safety barrier risk management system.
6. What are the 5 steps in Risk Management?
Step 1. Define your Major Accident Hazard (MAH) areas
Step 2. Systematically identify your barriers and controls to develop the Bowtie diagrams.
Step 3. Define your Performance Standards
Step 4. Set up a Barrier Health Assessment system with all the information compiled; connect to sources of impairment and compensating measures
Step 5. Deploy the system, validate and assess risk in real time.
FAQs
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Safety Barrier Health Monitoring
Challenge
Norway’s PSA and EU Directive 2013/30 and 2004/35 regulations require the management of Barriers to safety and environmental risks. Var Energy’s Goliat has over 100k equipment tags and 1,600 barriers. A solution was required to keep on top of essential safety equipment certifications, overdue maintenance and understand the risk associated to barrier degradation in order to achieve a risk-based management of barriers.
Solution
Using our Ingenuity Platform we built a Digital Twin of the Safety Barriers and associated equipment and connected this to the systems with information affecting Barrier Status, including notifications, work orders and ICSS device alerts. The data model incorporated recommendations from SINTEF on how status should be calculated based on criticality and other factors and aggregated up across barrier elements and areas.
Impact
Operations teams now have a realtime, online picture of current Safety Barrier Health which is used to help priorities activities and ensure continued safe operation. The Norwegian PSA have commended the work and the project won an internal award within Var Energy.
Clients
Over the past fifteen years, we have worked with many of the major oil and gas operators. We are trusted as engineering experts who deploy digital technologies to create value.
With this cloud-based platform our engineers can continue to work remotely, and it makes it easy to keep everyone in the company informed."
