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REAL-TIME SAFETYLONE WORKER MONITORING, WIRELESS
GAS DETECTION & EFFICENCY
ABOUT US
CVE: BLN Product developer Monitoring partnerService providerManufacturerYves Carrier, Business
Development and Sales
Manager
WE’VE DONE THIS BEFORE
Cody Slater, Blackline CEO Founded BW Technologies
Dr. John Finbow, Blackline board member Co-founded City Technologies
WHY YOU ARE HERE
SAFETY – SPEED and ACCURACY of
RESPONSE
THE FASTEST POSSIBLE RESPONSE
▪ Employees working alone
▪ Evacuations that account for the location
of everyone along the way
▪ Response during turnarounds and
maintenance projects when on-site
activities are greatest
▪ Blackline data-point: emergency
response time <60 seconds 99.7%
▪ Man down and high H2S alarm, you
don’t want to rush in unless properly
equipped for H2s environment.
RESCUE VERSUS RECOVERY:
EMPOWER AWARENESS
▪ When an incident occurs, every second counts
▪ Never before has a comprehensive safety
monitoring system delivered:
▪ Real-time situational awareness
▪ Incident management tools
▪ Technology to make a difference
Traditional
approach
H2S gas leak00m 00s 00m 02s
High gas alert received by
Blackline Safety Network
00m 01s
G7 detects H2S gas, alerts worker
00m 01s
Gas detector goes off —
no one nearby to hear it
00m 31s
Live monitoring team calls worker
— not responsive
01m 45s
Responders
prepare
01m 40s
Everyone evacuated
04m 25s
Worker rescued
02h 00m
Check-in missed
02h 05m
Supervisor concerned
02h 10m
Search begins
03h 30m
Body recovered
With G7
IT’S ALL ABOUT TIME
▪ Time to respond in an incident — Real time awareness empowers an effective
response. Emergency situation accountability and lone working or gas
exposure.
▪ Save time by not over managing the equipment — Connected devices require
limited hands on administration and setup burden.
▪ Collection of data timeline — Relevance of data may be lost if it takes too long
to collect.
▪ Collection of data efficiency — Save by no longer having to manually collect or
collate compliance and exposure data.
▪ Workflow process efficiency — How often are people spending at tool up
shack, are your workflow processes optimum?
THE CONNECTED
INDUSTRIAL WORKER
KEY CONNECTED SAFETY PLAYERS
Connected Gas detection vendors
▪ Honeywell Analytics, MSA, Industrial
Scientific, Blackline Safety
Lone worker vendors
▪ Delorme InReach, SPOT, GRACE
Industries, Blackline Safety
Radio vendors
▪ Motorola, Harris etc. Man down integration
PPE vendors
▪ Helmets: Guardhat & Realwear,
▪ Proxxi Band electrical field limit of
approach.
Mobile phone / app vendors
▪ Workflow mgmt, risk analysis,
incident reporting, lone working.
Many vendors, Blackline Safety
Vehicle tracking vendors
▪ Many vendors, Trackopolis,
PeopleNet, Telogis, Geotab, etc.
Asset tracking and access
control vendors
▪ RFID Extronics & Aeroscout
▪ Many many vendors
CONNECTED WORKER CHECKLIST
Shown is a Blackline concept
CONSIDER
▪ Which wireless communications will work best for your
sites and locations.
▪ What location technologies would support your teams?
▪ Do you have lone workers?
▪ Who would monitor your teams?
▪ Do you require gas detection?
▪ Who will manage the data and insights received. API’s
to share data?
REVIEW THE VENDORS
▪ Challenge your vendors to validate their approach
▪ Who are they partnered with?
▪ What is their financial structure and can it support long
term R&D, product support?
▪ Distribution Channels? Support?
ASSESS YOUR SITUATION
▪ Who will use the system and in what
operational setup(s)?
▪ What risk scenarios do you want or need
to address?
▪ Where are the teams located?
▪ When should the system be used and
deliver value?
▪ Why would you deploy the technology?
▪ How would you communicate adoption
with your teams?
▪ Change Management is very important
▪ Tracking/location data and employee sensitivity.
DATA BACKHAUL or
COMMUNICATIONS OPTIONS
SEVERAL OPTIONS
▪ Cellular (3G, 4G, 5G)
▪ Satellite
▪ Wi-Fi in facilities and vehicles
▪ Mesh networking
▪ Bluetooth to smartphones
▪ Access control via RFID
LOCATION TECHNOLOGIES
CHALLENGE
▪ GPS signals can be unreliable / unavailable
inside and nearby facilities
MAINSTREAM & PROVEN OPTIONS
▪ GPS / Assisted-GPS (aided for quick location
startup)
▪ Wi-Fi SSID proximity detection (iPhone/Android)
▪ Cell tower ID / (low accuracy)
▪ Beacons (simple proximity detection)
OTHER OPTIONS
▪ Wi-Fi, ultra-wideband / proprietary time-
difference of arrival signals (TDOA
triangulation)
▪ Combination inertial & GPS
▪ Acoustic TDoA
TRADITIONAL OPTIONS
▪ Access control via RFID
▪ Sign-in sheets
BLACKLINE SAFETY:
OUR PORTFOLIO
Blackline Safety Portfolio
Configurable to your operations and risk
Cellular
24/7 live monitoring Blackline Live
Satellite
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Plug-and-play cartridges
Dock Indoor location technology
Smartphone
COMPLETE, TURN-KEY SYSTEM
▪ Everything works right out of the box
▪ A tailored, one-vendor solution
▪ Works everywhere
▪ No facility communications needed
▪ No facility power needed
▪ No software installation
▪ No IT support required
▪ Web-based monitoring software
HOW IT WORKS
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Communication networks Blackline Live
web interface
G7 DEVICEBlackline Safety
Network
24/7 monitoring
team
Supervisors
RESPONSEINCIDENT
3G & satellite communications
(coverage in 200 countries)
Local responders
dispatched
Two-way voice calling and text messaging
Automatic alerts
▪ Gas detected
▪ Fall detected
▪ Man-down detected
▪ Check-in missed
Manual alerts
▪ SOS latch triggered
▪ Silent alert triggered
▪ Falls
▪ Injuries
▪ Health incidents
▪ Environmental
exposure
Alert
notifications
PLUG-AND-PLAY CARTRIDGES
Multi-gas Diffusion
Single-gas Diffusion
Multi-gas Pump
H2S LEL-IR LEL-P O2-IR
CO NH3 Cl2 CO-H
PID CO2 CO+H2S SO2
▪ Customize according to your needs
▪ Eliminate downtime — field replaceable in seconds
NEW NEW NEW
NEW NEW
NEW
COMING
SOON
NEWCOMING
SOON
CONNECTED SAFETY
OVERVIEW
CONFINED SPACE ENTRYKeep track of who enters confined
spaces, which ones, for how long and
know what gases were encountered
EMERGENCY RESPONSEControl room, supervisors or central
monitoring center manages every alert
GAS DETECTIONLocation-enable gas readings to
empower data analytics, respond
to incidents in real-time
LONE WORKERSKeep an eye on employees
working beyond sight and
sound of others
DATA ANALYTICSLeverage ‘big data’ created by
every gas detector, quickly
sift through the data
TEAM COMMUNICATIONConvergence enables a gas detector
to be used like a two-way radio
EVACUATIONSEvacuation individuals, teams or
sites through notifications, actively
account for everyone along the way
COMPLIANCEAutomating regulator gas
detection compliance, equipment
use compliance
LEAK SURVEYLeverage ‘big data’ created by
every gas detector, quickly
sift through the data
AREA MONITORINGContinuous monitoring of tank
farms, processes, spill sites
and during plant maintenance
REAL-TIME TURNAROUNDSMaintenance projects benefit from safety
and productivity-based awareness and
data analytics
INDUSTRIAL HYGIENEHelp IH team manage a world-
class program to protect
employee health into the future
Is it being used? Is it compliant?Added Value:
Where is it?
MORE THAN JUST GAS DETECTION
Where are gas exposures occurring?
How much time is spent in area?
Risk Mitigation and EfficiencyWhat’s the data trend
over time?
PROVIDING BUSINESS INSIGHTS
LONE WORKER CHECKS
SIMPLE DEFINITION
▪ Someone beyond sight and sound of
others who can provide help
CHALLENGE
▪ Manual employee checks prone to error
HOW TO AUTOMATE?
▪ Wearables provide automation and real
time awareness:
▪ Fall detection
▪ No-motion (man-down) detection
▪ Missed check-in detection
TODAY
FUTURE
EVACUATION MANAGEMENT
CHALLENGE
▪ It’s difficult to evacuate sites and account
for every worker along the way
ACTIVE EVACUATION MANAGEMENT
▪ Mass employee notifications
▪ Select individuals, teams, areas or full sites
▪ Map everyone’s location as they muster
▪ Contact anyone lagging behind
▪ Dispatch help knowing the situation
TODAY
FUTURE
TWO-WAY EMERGENCY
COMMUNICATIONS
▪ Monitoring personnel can speak directly to the employee via G7c
▪ G7c auto-answers — no employee action required
▪ Messaging supports evacuation notification and muster awareness.
▪ All calls/message logs recorded and stored in systems for incident reporting
RADIO CALLING
CHALLENGE
▪ Employees wear two devices
▪ Businesses pay for two devices
OPTIMIZATION AND PRODUCTIVITY
▪ Push-to-talk coming to gas detection
▪ Employees will be able to use gas
detectors like a two-way radio
▪ Affordable deployment for every worker
▪ Businesses will benefit from100 channels
of communication
▪ Cellular communications — works beyond
a single site
TODAY
FUTURE
GAS DETECTION COMPLIANCE
CHALLENGE
▪ Businesses struggle to understand if their
current gas detection fleet is compliant
AUTOMATION ELIMINATES MANUAL WORK
▪ Devices wirelessly send bump test and
calibration to online software
▪ Software tools provide a real-time reporting
▪ No more data collection, review and reporting
▪ See who is using gas detection equipment
▪ See all non-compliant equipment
▪ Software analytics enable a deeper-dive into
historical compliance and usage data
TODAY
FUTURE
GAS DETECTION
CHALLENGE
▪ Gas detectors should alert others, not just the
employee
AUTOMATION
▪ Real-time alerting of a gas exposure
▪ Connects the worker to a live monitoring team
through voice calling or messaging
▪ Streams gas readings to online software
▪ Location-enabled data drive business insights
▪ Modularity eliminates downtime due to a failed
sensor
TODAY
FUTURE
CONFINED SPACE & LEAK CHECK
CHALLENGE
▪ Difficult to know what’s happening in the field
AUTOMATED CSE INSIGHTS
▪ Who enters which confined spaces?
▪ How long are personnel in confined spaces?
▪ What hazards were encountered?
LEAK CHECK
▪ Where do leaks occur?
▪ Map non-alarm gas exposures from
everyone over time
▪ Dispatch employees to perform leak checks
TODAY
FUTURE
DATA ANALYTICS
CHALLENGE
▪ Businesses are missing information about their
lone worker and gas detection programs
AUTOMATION
▪ Devices stream data to cloud-hosted software
▪ Analytics helps users drill into their data
▪ All data is location-enabled for mapping
▪ Review data by employee, team, time, event
type and location
▪ New reports being created based on feedback
TODAY
FUTURE
PRODUCTIVITY
AUTOMATION, OPTIMIZATIONS
AND INSIGHTS
▪ Streamline workflows and activities
▪ Automatically manage device
updates and configuration
▪ Understand trends, behaviors and
activities
▪ Keep teams integrated through
affordable voice communications
▪ Drive real-time activities
REAL-TIME TURNAROUNDS
CHALLENGE
▪ Maintenance projects lose out by not leveraging
location and safety technologies
AUTOMATION
▪ Connected personal gas detection
▪ Real-time emergency response tools
▪ Location technology & floor plans
▪ Documented confined space entries
▪ Analytics shows productivity
FUTURE
▪ Location-based Integration with project
management software
TODAY
FUTURE
WHAT ADDED VALUE SHOULD BE
NEXT?
ADDED VALUE TO MAIN CAPABILITY
IS AN IMPORTANT WEARABLE CONSIDERATION
LESSONS LEARNED HELPING YOUR COUNTERPARTS ON
CONNECTED GAS DETECTION AND LONE WORKER PROJECTS
▪ To help justify the “real time safety” investment, added value from the
technology requested. — Operational, HSE supervisors/managers and
Business Support team, (IT, etc), desire consolidated tools.
▪ Business Case - Cost of ownership must be considered against your
traditional gas detection or check in systems — Business case to
invest in connectivity and access to data requires altered up front
budgetary spends from traditional hidden costs.
▪ Project/Budget approvals typically require buy in from Director or VP
level of Operations or HSE, sometimes C-Suite — Senior
Management buy-in and purposeful efforts towards a connected
industrial worker future are required.
TELL US WHAT YOU THINK
WHAT SHOULD THE FUTURE BRING?
▪ Electronic permitting?
▪ Deeper turnaround integrations?
▪ Wearable video?
▪ Biometrics?
▪ Smart PPE?
THANK YOU —QUESTIONS?