KMS™ – Process Safety Management Solution

The KMS Process Safety Management solution is based on proven, tested, exhaustive field experience. It is in use worldwide at oil and gas production facilities, refineries, chemical processing plants and in high-tech manufacturing. Practitioners at more than 1,600 facilities operated by some of the world’s largest companies trust KMS to improve their process safety. KMS facilitates:

• Identifying and closing out recommendations for risk mitigation
• Reducing operational impact on the environment and local communities
• Ensuring compliance with safety regulations

Recommendations come from formal processes such as audits, hazard analysis workshops, or investigation of unwanted events and “near misses.” These are all supported by tools in the KMS suite. Recommendations also arise from day-to-day plant maintenance and operations, continuous improvement efforts or reliability reviews.

Resolution Tracker™, the core KMS module, supports management of change from

• initial recommendation
• through approval,
• implementation action planning,
• action close out
• and pre-startup safety review (PSSR)

Recurring actions required to maintain safe operation are managed in the same system. Another essential element of KMS, BadgerMail™ provides active follow-up to action owners and their managers with reminders of upcoming due dates and escalation of overdue items.

KMS provides comprehensive reporting, analysis and dashboards: the “Risk Intelligence” that enables our customers to deliver better safety performance.

KMS is a scalable system that enables single-site or enterprise-wide safety management, including:

• Management of Change process compliance
• Tracking of recommended actions and recurring activities
• Investigation of unwanted events and near misses
• Hazard analysis and risk ranking
• Audits, findings and corrective actions
• Risk Intelligence reporting and dashboards for safety performance metrics

KMS affords customers lower operating costs, assured compliance with government regulations, avoidance of fines and sanctions and demonstration of good corporate citizenship. Overall business benefits are achieved though:

• Understanding of key safety performance indicators and metrics
• Central assessment and control of issues and risks
• Sharing and acting on lessons learned
• Ensuring that audits, inspections, work assignments and improvement actions are closed out

KMS Technology has been designed and developed by process safety management professionals over more than 15 years. It meets OSHA’s exacting regulatory standards for process safety management of hazardous chemicals. The software is fully web-based, utilizing the OSyS Technology Platform. Therefore, there are no desktop apps to maintain with associated IT costs. KMS has shown to be easier to learn and manage by the casual user than typical client-server applications.

KMS Version 11, released in September 2011, brings enhanced usability with a fresh look and feel. Customers appreciate the greater readability and more consistent controls. It’s an easy-to-learn and use package which increases end-user acceptance. Localization capabilities enable multiple languages, as well as customization for individual company processes and nomenclature.

The latest software enhancement adds advanced Risk Intelligence with customizable dashboards and more robust reporting capabilities.