Managing Safety
Yet Not Feeling Safe?

We help you define complex set of performance indicators that will show how good you were and how good you can be in terms of safety performance. By using the STPA outcomes, we can guide you to the core of the potential issue within your system or process. Having both reactive and proactive performance measurement will help you better navigate system settings and design. This is achieved through guided system analysis and traceable data, which helps validate whether the safety constraints and assumptions in place are still relevant and functional.

What to expect:

• Organizational structure mapping
• Identification of responsibility, authority and accountability for safety
• Hazard identification
• Documentation of safety requirements (safety constraints) and related assumptions
• Definition and refinement of safety objectives
• Definition and refinement of safety performance indicators (both leading and lagging, combined into a functional set)
• Safety performance monitoring and measurement (including identification and processing of safety data)
• Identification of actions required to manage safety performance

The process of KPIs setting is applicable in any phase of your system/process development or operation. All starts with the collaborative description of your system, which sets the performance monitoring scope and ensures a focused attention on the right things. KPIs are defined through a systemic review of the identified states of the system and assumptions made to ensure safety.

We help you define what and when to check and inspect, focusing on the actual performance instead of base compliance monitoring. By using the STPA outcomes, we help you define an effective strategy for inspecting and auditing your system and processes. Use your limited resources wisely and target only what matters. Through the guided analytical process, we can help you identify the weak spots that are affecting your safety performance.

What to expect:

• Organizational structure mapping
• Identification of responsibility, authority and accountability for safety
• Hazard identification
• Documentation of safety requirements (safety constraints) and related assumptions
• Identification of the critical system or process elements
• Definition of the frequency and scale of the inspection process
• Requirements for inspection planning and performance
• Identification of areas for potential improvement
• Resolution of non-conformances and ineffective safety risk controls
• Development and implementation of corrective and preventive action plans
• Assessment of the effectiveness of the SMS
• Setup of compliance and performance-based audits and inspections

Preparation of the system review through an inspection or audit starts with the mapping of the existing system or process. Identified hazards and contributing factors are then driving the audit or inspection process. Data collected through inspections are structured in a way ensuring continuous safety performance monitoring.

Your system has to evolve! That is a great opportunity to make it stronger and more efficient. Change can eliminate issues but it can also bring new ones. By creating a model of your system or process, we are making it more understandable thus manageable for updates, modifications, or even day-to-day operations to help you track the system’s health and hazards before and after the change.

What to expect:

• Organizational structure mapping
• Identification of responsibility, authority and accountability for safety
• Documentation of safety requirements (safety constraints) and related assumptions
• Baseline hazard analysis and validity test
• Analysis of the system’s past performance
• Evaluation of the system stability and operational environment
• Evaluation of the potential change consequences and their criticality
• Refinement of safety objectives and goals
• Hazard identification
• Risk assessment
• Development of the safety risk mitigation strategy and action plans
• Identification of actions required to manage safety performance
• Safety performance monitoring and measurement

Clear description of the current system or process is followed by the definition of the change. All impacted system or process elements are reviewed using the STPA hazard analysis that ensures detailed elaboration of the change in terms of system safety and definition of safety requirements and recommendations.