Importance Of Management Of Change In Hazardous Industries

So, what is management of change (MOC)?

Going back to the source, OSHA 1910.119(l)(1) sets the requirements for MOC as: “The employer shall establish and implement written procedures to manage changes (except for “replacements in kind”) to process chemicals, technology, equipment and procedures; and, changes to facilities that affect a covered process.”

A well-designed MOC process is an essential loss prevention tool for any business. It is not just for certain hazardous industries. The process applies to any company that wishes to avoid future losses resulting from today’s changes. MOC does not have to be overwhelming or so difficult to use that it inhibits change. It cannot effortlessly compensate for past omissions, only reduce your future risk. So, the time to start developing and implementing an effective and efficient MOC process is today.

Since every business has different areas of risk exposure and different tolerance of undesired consequences, it is up to each business to assess risk and define its tolerance for uncontrolled change.

A few hours of quality “what if” brainstorming by a multi-disciplinary team early in the process design to develop the definitions and examples that are right for your business will pay huge dividends.

iProcess MOC

iProcess MOC is a web-based collaboration and workflow software designed to manage changes systematically in process chemicals, technology, equipment, facilities, or procedures. It tracks all planned changes through a series of checklists, Workflow phases to ensure your business is fully prepared to implement any operational or organizational change. This application is ideal for those subject to OSHA's Process Safety Management (PSM) requirements, as well as those interested in PSM management of change software as part of a best practices management approach.

KEY FEATURES

•             Implement any kind of change.

•             Create unlimited workflow templates with customizable steps, Tasks and People, Define your own workflow action and rules.

•             Link Documents, Equipment, P& ID’s

•             Set up Flexible People Review Structure ( Parallel, Sequential, Any individual or Group review)

•             Enforce completion of Critical tasks at any Step with in MOC process

•             Manage Temporary Changes

•             Seamless email notifications during the life cycle of MOC including reminder emails.

•             Create your own email templates for each event with in MOC

•             Standard reports and customize your own reports

•             Implement any type of changes including Not in Kind Equipment, Process, procedures, technology, Organizational changes and many more

•             Common Tracker Module to track all action items from iprocess-Apps

•             Create unlimited checklists including PSSR, PHA and others

•             Attach Checklists to Approvers, Tasks implementers

•             Attach standard and custom forms to any Step within the workflow

•             Control access to data based on user roles and permissions

•             Visual Display of workflow chart and workflow steps.

•             Dashboard with graphical charts

•             Easy to use web based application developed based on powerful Microsoft .Net Technology and Microsoft SQL Server Database

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