TotalEnergies Case Study: Digital Process Safety
This TotalEnergies case study describes the use of Mangan’s Safety Lifecycle Manager® to digitalize process safety management, improve access to safety data and support risk-based decisions.
The original case study refers to the company as Total. The challenges, results, outcomes and attributed quotations below come from that project document.
TotalEnergies Case Study: The Challenge
“Digitalize Process Safety Management at Total.”
In accordance with Total's commitment to the Responsible Care initiative, they have pledged to track process safety performance and reduce the occurrence of process safety incidents.
87%
time saving on process safety tasks by using Mangan’s Safety Lifecycle Manager® to eliminate drafting internal communications, searching for documents, and interacting with experts.
Current Major Challenges and Pain Points
- Disparate systems constantly being revised, updated or modified.
- Volumes of process safety information.
- Effective risk tracking and management suffering.
- Asset data is stored in disparate systems.
TotalEnergies Case Study: The Solution
After a rigorous selection process, the project team selected a market leading product, Safety Lifecycle Manager®, developed by Mangan Software Solutions.
SLM® software will provide a PSM collaboration platform that would be the single source to real-time process safety data.
Solution Results
Data Access
Ability for area managers to quickly access data.
Superior Risk Management
Improved bypass tracking and risk management for functions bypassed that mitigate severity 4 and 5 consequences.
Event Tracking
Tracking of device demand events, function tests and faults/failures for proven in use data for more accurate SIL analysis.
Advanced Reporting Capabilities
Improved reporting of bad actors.
Accurate Decision Making
Facilitates operational personnel making safe and accurate decisions.
Leadership Gaining KPI Metrics
Leadership gaining accurate KPIs so that they can measure the effectiveness of their PSM performance initiatives.
Data Security
Availability of documents and data to authorized personnel.
Real Time Systems
Real-time safety system health and safety critical barrier effectiveness.
TotalEnergies Case Study Outcomes
This project has yielded impressive results in the components of safety, data integrity, reliability/availability, and cost efficiencies. For safety benefits:
- The plant can now visualize the actual risk scenarios at the facility using an interactive version of the Total Risk Matrix.
- Users can see the risk scenarios at the facility or operating unit in real-time in seconds, giving an unprecedented level of visibility and speed.
- Operations and leadership have access to evergreen and accurate Dynamic Risk Assessments anywhere in the plant.
- TOTAL can measure process safety performance of our safety systems through dozens of critical KPIs.
- TOTAL can now act with confidence, knowing the latest information is up to date, secure, and approved for consumption.
- Documents can be secured and access limited to approved personnel to prevent data integrity issues.
- Overall improvement of availability and a sharp decline in downtime. For the first time, TOTAL can now identify those bad actors from the performance data captured and replace them. This greatly reduces downtime that originates from safety system trips.
- Reduces the costs associated with safety systems during turnarounds by equipping maintenance teams with accurate, up-to-date equipment data and the ability to instantly review their results.
Quotes from the Project Team
“All of the information related to Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) and safety barriers is presented in a simple, easy-to-read format”
— Amol Deshpande, Senior Process Safety Engineer
“The software allows us to identify unreliable safety barriers that require attention and focus”
— Christopher Finke, PSM Supervisor
“We have information in PDF files, paper documents, word documents and now everything is digitized. We can now manipulate the data and track the changes”
— Amol Deshpande, Senior Process Safety Engineer
“Various departments can use the information differently. You can be more proactive instead of reactive and all of the details are available to everyone”
— Amol Deshpande, Senior Process Safety Engineer
“Managing asset integrity and safety barriers is a priority of the Total Group and this tool allows us to do that. We started this initiative and presented it to other sections of Total so if this software does well at PAR other groups would like to roll it out at their sites as well”
— Christopher Finke, PSM Supervisor
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