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Safety, Risk & Compliance
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Safety, Risk & Compliance

Make safety decisions clear, timely, and consistent—so high-risk work, exposure, and audits are handled with confidence.

High-hazard work and SIMOPS need clear permissions, clean isolations, traceable evidence, and secure practices. Here’s a practical way to standardize control of work, embed compliance, reduce exposure, and tighten physical & cyber hygiene—without unnecessary admin.

What you’ll get on this page

  • A staged approach you can run with existing systems
  • Clear KPIs
  • Short Use Cases with links to OpreX™ Integrated Solutions pages
Make safety decisions clear, timely, and consistent—so high-risk work, exposure, and audits are handled with confidence.

 

Why Yokogawa

  • Scalable permit-to-work that covers every role, including contractors
  • A knowledge-driven core for safer and faster permitting across industries
  • Global deployments and support in high-risk environments with proven outcomes

 

Overview

  • Challenge
    Permits, isolations, and risk reviews sit apart; hazardous inspections raise exposure; evidence is manual; access controls are uneven.
  • Approach
    One experience—standardized control of work → evidence-by-design → exposure reduction（remote/assisted inspection）→ physical & cyber hygiene.
  • Outcomes
    Fewer incidents and findings, faster safe-to-start, clearer accountability, lower exposure.
  • Primary KPIs
    TRIR (Total Recordable Incident Rate), LTI (Lost Time Injuries), permit issue-to-start time, isolation link accuracy, overdue maintenance backlog, audit findings closure time.

We describe methods and typical goals. Actual outcomes vary by site conditions, data quality, and operating constraints.

Details

Challenges

 

Do any of these sound familiar in your operations?

Establishing a safety culture & preventing incidents
  • Procedures and isolations vary by person or shift
  • Roles and approvals aren’t always clear
Establishing a safety culture & preventing incidents
Regulatory compliance & audit preparedness
  • Evidence sits in multiple places
  • Corrective actions are hard to track through to closure
Regulatory compliance & audit preparedness
Risk management & incident response
  • SIMOPS and high-risk inspections carry exposure
  • Early detection and first actions are uneven
Risk management & incident response
Physical & cybersecurity
 
  • Site access, keys, and OT connections are inconsistently controlled
  • Responsibilities blur at interfaces
Physical & cybersecurity

 

How Yokogawa helps

 

Practical ways to address these challenges with your team

Standardize control of work
  • Put permits, isolations, risk assessment, and approvals in one flow with clear roles and gates
  • Make “safe-to-start” visible
Standardize control of work
Build “compliance by design”
  • Capture evidence as part of doing the work
  • Route findings and corrective actions with owners and due dates
  • Review closure weekly
Build “compliance by design”
Reduce exposure & clarify first response
  • Use remote/assisted inspection for hard-to-reach areas
  • Define who acts, how fast, and with what checks when events occur
Reduce exposure & clarify first response
Tighten physical & cyber hygiene
 
  • Simplify access rules (people/areas/systems), log exceptions, and rehearse recovery steps
  • Keep responsibilities explicit at interfaces
Tighten physical & cyber hygiene

 

Use Case

 

[Case 1] One flow for permits, isolations, and approvals

When these steps live apart, readiness is ambiguous and delays grow. Unify roles, gates, and evidence so “safe-to-start” is visible and preventable incidents and audit findings are reduced.

Team achieves
  • Faster permit issue-to-start time
  • Fewer hand-off and linkage errors
  • Clear ownership and accountability by role
[Case1] One flow for permits, isolations, and approvals

 

[Case 2] Remote/assisted inspection to reduce exposure & verify early

Hard-to-reach checks raise exposure and slow confirmation. Use remote/assisted observation to surface early signals, capture evidence, and trigger rapid first response while lowering field time.

Team achieves
  • Reduced exposure hours for risky checks
  • Earlier condition confirmation with evidence
  • Faster escalation to the right owner
[Case2] Remote/assisted inspection to reduce exposure & verify early

 

[Case 3] Risk awareness for low-frequency, high-hazard scenarios

Because these events are rare, responses vary by person and shift. Simulate the sequence, make verification steps explicit, and rehearse until hesitation drops to lower incident likelihood.

Team achieves
  • Confident first moves under stress
  • Consistent verification before start
  • Lower frequency of abnormal events
[Case3] Risk awareness for low-frequency, high-hazard scenarios

 

[Case 4] Interface & SIMOPS safety (people–cargo–vehicle)

At interfaces, responsibilities blur and risks stack across parties. Share the same checks, owners, and timers so multi-party work starts and finishes under common safeguards.

Team achieves
  • Fewer near-misses at interfaces
  • Faster coordination across crews and contractors
  • Cleaner, traceable audit trails
[Case4] Interface & SIMOPS safety (people–cargo–vehicle)

 

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