Prioritizing Safety to Increase Efficiency

Kevin Emard, Prometheus Group

Agenda

• Prometheus Group’s permit to work vision• Introducing our ePAS software• Key Benefits• Today’s focus areas

• Permitting• Risk Assessment• Isolation Management

• Demonstration • Q&A session

Prometheus’ Permit to Work Vision

Prometheus ePAS- Permit to Work Technology• Prometheus ePAS (electronic permitting administration system)

• A leading electronic permit to work software since 1998• Web-based permit to work software system that replaces paper processes with an

integrated system of work.• ePAS incorporates permit planning, risk assessment, hazard conflict warnings, and

isolation management.• Goals of promoting safety, efficiency, and accountability in the work place.

• Leading industries we serve:• Oil & Gas• Chemicals• Mining & Metals• Manufacturing• Utilities• Paper

Going Paperless with Permit to Work

ePAS provides several key advantages and benefits to its customers:

Protect Lives and Plants

Ensure compliance, provide greater visibility of hazards and work conflicts

Save Money

Elevate productivity, avoid reworks, streamline workflows, return plant to production earlier

Work Smarter

Integrate easily and securely to systems and mobilize your field workers

Plan Better

Reduce Permit to Work and LOTO planning and preparation time by up to 75%

Product Philosophy

As with all Prometheus software, our ePAS solution prides itself on being:

Leading the way with technology

and process

Innovative User Friendly

CustomizableOut of

the Box

Easy to use, maximize employee

output

Fully customizable to

suit your processes

Industry specific standard options

for fast implementation

• Permit to Work Software accomplishes multiple safety objectives by focusing on three key areas:

Today’s Focus Areas

Permit to Work Risk AssessmentIsolation Management

Permitting- Pencil & Paper vs. Electronic

• Three main reasons everyone does permitting:• Prevent safety incidents• Ensure proper work execution• Build history

• Lessons learned• Avoid a poor audit

• Downside of using pencil & paper permits:• More manual; can lead to ‘pencil whipping’• Less reliable storage; no data back up• Harder to reference for future work or audits

Risk Assessment- Why we care

• Lack of Risk Assessments can cause a number of issues from:• Major/minor safety incidents• Production downtime• Equipment breakdowns

• Results in:• Loss of morale• Customer dissatisfaction • Increased labor costs• Increased material &

equipment costs

Certificates

• As part of the permit, various certificates are crucial for ensuring safety of your people. Examples include:

• Isolation certificates• Formal Risk Assessment• Confined Space Entry certificate• Hot Work certificate• Excavation certificate• Elevated Work certificate

• Certificate templates may be saved for reuse on other permits.

Permitting with ePAS

• Much like a work order life cycle, PTW follows its own workflow planning process:

• General Details• Plant & Work• Tasks• Recipients• Documents• Permit Summary• Approvals

• Data from your ERP system can be configured to automatically pull into this permitting process

Demonstration

Shutdown Management

• Example of an area during a plant shutdown• Color coded for different types of certificates

Printing Tags for LOTO

• Tags for Lockout Tagout will be printed on paper specifically designed for permit tags that meet your business needs.

• Automatically generating these tags will save significantly on preparation time.

Questions?