Maintenance work on complex systems has a high risk potential. As an employer, you must ensure maximum safety through appropriate risk management, especially for life-threatening processes and workflows. The requirements for occupational safety also increase due to the large number of tasks carried out simultaneously and the number of people involved. Our electronic risk management system SARA Cockpit helps you to carry out the necessary risk assessments, maintain an overview and organise each individual work step as safely as necessary.
The basis for a reliable risk assessment is a multi-level catalogue in which all potential hazards are broken down into categories and groups. This categorisation also distinguishes between hazards arising from the place of work, the work being carried out or the processes taking place in the plant. A series of risk minimisation measures are defined for each hazard and are listed according to the quality of the safety measure. The catalogue is based on your occupational safety standards and is individually tailored to your plant and the work you carry out. This allows you to identify the relevant hazards and define protective measures for each job.
Before work can be approved, the risk assessment requires different types of authorisation depending on the work being carried out and the calculated residual risk. The dual control principle ensures that no single employee can issue all authorisations single-handedly. Only when all digital authorisations have been issued can the work be released and the work permit printed out.
The printed permit lists all relevant information about the work to be carried out. In addition to a summary of the work steps, the place and time of work and the name of the authorised company, only the selected hazards and protective measures are listed. This keeps the approval certificate short and clear. Additional sections on necessary preparatory measures, gas clearance measurements or a fire watch are only included if required. Other sections such as a Last Minute Risk Analysis (LMRA) or signature fields for the confirmation of a briefing or shift handover are always included and can be customised to your individual requirements. Pictograms and colour highlighting also make it easier to maintain an overview.
For recurring work, risk assessments do not have to be created from scratch every time. Save completed risk assessments as templates and use them again for similar work. Adjustments to the specifications from the template can of course be made independently for each individual document. This saves valuable working time without compromising on occupational safety.
The processing status of each risk assessment can be constantly tracked thanks to a progress bar in the form of several pictograms. This allows you to see directly which document still needs to be processed or approved, where preparatory measures need to be carried out before the actual work begins or whether a job is currently being carried out or has been interrupted. You can also see whether a work site has been left in an unsafe condition and whether, for example, clean-up work or further cordoning off measures are required.
Once a job has been fully completed or must be interrupted, e.g. at the end of a shift, a checkout takes place. After entering the permit number (or scanning the barcode), the employee can provide information as to whether they wish to report the work complete or interrupt it and whether the work site has been left clean and safe. The status of the work progress is then updated immediately.