Health, Safety and Environment is crucial for any Oil & Gas business because this sector, in most cases, produces its revenue from hazardous plants, hence, any incident or accident at those plants, can lead to injuries, production loss and in some cases to asset damage and fatalities. Furthermore pollution and environmental concerns are huge in this sector due to the type of products, gases and material handled, produced or generated as waste. In view of this nature of this industry, HSE issues and effective HSE management becomes key to any Oil & Gas business.
Effective management of HSE needs beside people and procedures, the right tools for the same, such as HSE management software. Any such software needs to cover most HSE challenges such as ; incident and accident management, emission management, waste management, hygiene management beside asset management, staff training and staff data management. These should come bundled within an integrated HSE software platform.
Effectively HSE management these days can also capitalize on advanced and available mobility and tracking technology that can be used to automate HSE work tracking and follow up, mobility, visibility of plant condition including events in real-time ( using respective SW on certified mobiles for such sites) and also the latest IoT technology.
Tracking technology in HSE management would be using radio frequency identification for emergency evacuation. Doing the headcount in such instances is very crucial and typically would confirm the last seen location of people who could not come to the assembly areas or safe areas. Automatic alarms and notifications will be given to make sure they are attended to in order to bring them into the safe area. Integrating such systems with HSE management software and Permit-to-Work software will make sure the plant and the people are safe.