Process Safety Management – APM Safety

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Process Safety Management – APM Safety

Reduce risks and improve safety for critical process instrumentation and equipment in your asset intensive facility with process safety management software.

Process Safety Management

Overview

Continuous Improvement with Safety Lifecycle Management Work Processes

APM Safety is a process safety management software that is part of GE Vernova’s Asset Performance Management (APM) suite, is designed to help users identify and mitigate process safety hazards, manage critical safety instrumentation, and support equipment and process changes that can increase safety risk.

With APM Safety, users can:
  • Align and integrate safety lifecycle management initiatives with corporate asset hierarchy, Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), and APM programs to help enhance operational efficiency.
  • Help identify and mitigate hidden risk by carrying out hazard analysis of critical systems and determining required safety instrumentation levels.
  • Help lower catastrophic incident probability with SIS Management, including SIL Assessment, Verification, and Validation.
  • Support process and equipment change projects to improve documentation/record compliance across the enterprise.
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APM Safety - Process Safety Management Software Outcomes

  • Reveal hidden safety issues that may cause catastrophic incidents
  • Better design helps reduce maintenance costs for each Safety Instrumented Function (SIF)
  • Lengthen proof test interval and eliminate production losses
  • Seamless integration with other APM applications such as APM Health to monitor the health of SIFs, APM Reliability to investigate Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) and instrumentation failures, and APM Strategy to view risks associated with Hazard and Operability Studies (HAZOP)

Customer Story

Learn about the one APM project from Bayer's Crop Science division, an APM enterprise customer and APM Safety user.

APM Safety user
Hazard Analysis

Key Features in APM Safety - Process Safety Management Software

  • Hazard Analysis: The hazard analysis capability is both a regulatory requirement and an integral part of an overall risk management process — focused on helping users identify and assess risks and manage the reduction of those risks.
  • Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) Management: GE Vernova’s SIS Management capability is designed to help customers address the need to maintain and manage the reliability and performance of critical process instrumentation and safety instrumented systems as well as help address compliance requirements.
  • Management of Change (MOC): GE Vernova’s MOC is a flexible solution engineered to help create and manage change projects, communicate changes to team members, and enforce an approval system to help provide accountability for the change.
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What is Process Safety Management?
Process Safety Management (PSM) is an approach often used by operators in industrial environments to continually monitor safety performance and actively respond to warning signs. Process Safety Management could encompass several tools and methodologies such as Hazard and Operability Studies (HAZOP Studies), Process Hazard Analysis (PHA), Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) management, and Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA). These are often used together to capture the causes, consequences, safeguards, and recommendations associated with hazard analysis; thereby improving overall pant safety.
What are the benefits of Process Safety Management?
The benefits of Process Safety Management include:
• Reveal hidden safety issues that may cause catastrophic incidents
• Reduce maintenance costs with better design and implementation of safety systems
• Lengthen proof test interval and eliminate production losses
• Comply with international Process Safety Management standards such as IEC 61508 and IEC 6151
• Align safety lifecycle management initiatives with EAM and Asset Performance Management programs to help enhance operational efficiency
How can technology support Process Safety Management?
While many organizations set up safeguards at the design level to help identify safety risks in their plants, the advance of technology has paved the way for users to centrally manage critical process instrumentation and safety instrumented systems at an operational level. Utilizing software tools, users can build assessments to categorize risk acceptance criteria, maintain and manage the reliability and performance of systems, and support change management and compliance initiatives across the enterprise.

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