(40ay) Interoperability in the Management of Changes of Critical Elements in the OIL and Gas Industry in Brazil
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
2023
2023 Spring Meeting and 19th Global Congress on Process Safety
Global Congress on Process Safety
GCPS - Process Safety Poster Session
Monday, March 13, 2023 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Management of Change (MOC) is one of the nine elements that make up the RBPS (Risk-Based Process Safety) pillar of Risk Management prepared by the Chemical Safety Center (CCPS).
The MOC is a process that includes analysis and an author for assessment that proposed changes prior to their implementation have not inadvertently introduced new hazards or increased the risks associated with existing ones.
The ANP (Brazilian national oil agency) through chapter 4 of its technical regulation SGSO (Operational Safety Management System) establishes its MANAGEMENT PRACTICE No. 16: CHANGE MANAGEMENT.
The Change Management Process is important to the security of operations by:
- Avoid installing “traps†on operational fronts;
- Promote the identification and analysis of risks through the use of appropriate techniques;
- Define an approval hierarchy for the change management steps;
- Ensuring that the Workforce is aware of and up-to-date with changes to the workplace.
Change management necessarily involves the following: recognition of Change situations, Hazard assessment, decision on whether to allow change, necessary risk control and follow-up measures.
This process helps ensure that proposed changes (changes) to a process do not inadvertently introduce new hazards or unknowingly increase the risks of existing hazards.
Interoperability is the ability of several systems to work together (interoperate), in order to ensure that people, organizations and computer systems interact to exchange information effectively and efficiently.
The failure information of a critical equipment in the operational control is made available to the maintenance system, where the maintenance note is opened automatically, in turn, this same information will also be used by the change management system for opening of a MOC of degraded critical equipment.
The main benefits of Interoperability Sharing information between systems and sectors is the possibility of working with heterogeneous systems (suppliers, different platforms and technologies), respect for the autonomy of the systems involved and the elimination of redundant information.
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With this interaction, it is possible to obtain a flowchart of the process, highlighting the critical elements, and their status in relation to change management.
And availability of information on risk analysis and contingency actions that the equipment has.