Incident/Accident log - plant maintenance notification

[Former Member]

In the incident accident log, from the safety measures screen, there is provision given to raise "os ihs notification" for the technical safety measures suggested. Can anyone explain in details why & where this would be required as the user department (production department) normally raises breakdown notifications if there is damage to any equipment in an incident.

Thanks and regards,

Santosh

Edited by: Santosh.Tiwari on Sep 14, 2009 2:27 PM

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Santosh,

The facility to create PM notifications from EH&S workbench has been provided for separately tracking EH&S safety measures as deemed by various EH&S departments in organizations. This helps in determining the KPI's and KRA's of the EH&S management in an enterprise. The notification gets created with separate notification type i.e. OS in SAP R/3 which communicates through SAP EH&S through function module "REHS_GET_ACTIONS_FROM_PM". This updates the status of the notification in EH&S. So, for a EH&S representative in an organization, getting a report of what all EHS notifications are open for action, is quite handy to plan his follow-up and reporting. Moreover, it's not always the case that notifications are raised for only braekdown of the equiments. It can be more elementary such as some gasoline spill have occured out of an incident. In this case person reporting the event would like to list safety measure for cleaning the pump area and tightening the leaking flange for arresting the leak. The first would amount to triggering notification to the housekeeping dept by specifying the relevant person responsible, and the second would trigger the notification to the maintainance dept. for flange tightening.

[nirajsikligar]

hi

Just to add to what Pavan said, Production dept. carries out Risk Assessment for work areas based on the exposure profile for the agents for that work area.. They identify a Risk associated with that work area and to prevent any incident / Accident happeing from that identified risk, a safety measure is also identified. So, for that safety measure a notification will be raised from EHS work bench to maint. dept. This will help in preventing any incident / accidnet happening.

Regards,

Niraj Sikligar

[Former Member]

Hi Pavan,

Thanks for your answer. As in your example, do u mean to say that if EHS personnel has raised a notification for flange tightening, the user (production) should be informed not to raise it again. ( he might raise it for repair through some other type of notification).

Regards,

Santosh

[Former Member]

Hi Santosh,

Yes you are right to some extent. If any organization has a good EHS management practice in place, there should be a separated KPI's and KRA's set for reducing Incidents / Accidents. For achieving the same, there should be separate type of notification configured for activities/jobs related to Incidents/Accidents.As part of best business practices, plant personnel (including production) people should be trained to always generate PM notifications from safety measure of an Incident / Accident being reported , so as to have a separate tracking for the same. This not only helps in tracking and reporting, but also would help in long way to avoid its re-occurence by pro-actively working on any faults let's say in case of a near miss incident.

I hope this clarifies your doubt.