Reliability Diagnostic Assessment by Using Adapted International Sustainability Rating System - ISRS

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This paper aims to present an approach for improving mechanical integrity by touching upon company’s management systems and cultural aspects by using as basis the ISRS - International Sustainability Rating System - which is a wide known best practice template for all the processes necessary for an organization to manage its risks and ensure a healthy business.

ISRS is a world leading system for measuring, improving and demonstrating health, safety, environmental and business performance, which incorporates best international practices and allows the integration of HSE and business issues. ISRS is now structured in 15 process, representing over 30 years of accumulated best practices experiences in safety and sustainability management system and its first edition was developed in 1978 by Frank Bird and has been regularly updated to reflect and lead in best practices.

This diagnostic is carried out using an adapted ISRS protocol (Omega or Alpha protocols). It can also be performed either by using the Omega or the Alpha protocol, but in any case, these protocols are tailored to focus on topics or matters that can somehow affect the reliability and integrity issues, thought out each of the 15 process. This assessment is based primarily on interviews and no evidence is requested for verification. Once the ISRS provides scores for each process, it is possible to benchmark and clearly identify areas to focus on.

In addition, this approach provides managers with detailed information on process performance to support their decision making process. At the end, two important outputs are proposed: the most important suggestions are identified and then called "Quick Wins", which are the ones that bring high impact in a short period of time, and long term actions, named as “Key Points to the Future”.

Thus, this reliability diagnostic approach is helping companies to establish the most effective path for continual improvement, touching upon cultural aspects, management procedures and operational practices that can affect the overall mechanical integrity and operational performance, by reducing reliability attributes of the systems. In additional to that, it will provide basis for boosting the companies’ management system.