Why do you need to revamp your Control of Work solution?

  • How do manual systems leave you open to risk? 
    Manual, paper-based, and spreadsheet systems are error-prone, inefficient, and lack the visibility and traceability required to maintain control in dynamic work environments. Paper permits can be lost, illegible, or misfiled. An integrated CoW system connects risk assessments and job hazard analyses with digital Permit to Work to establish safety measures and mitigation procedures before work starts and ensure workers have necessary skills, qualifications, and training for the task. 
  • Why do ineffective communications decrease safety performance? 
    Reliance on outdated forms of communication and paper permits, particularly when performing non-routine work, can leave you vulnerable to serious incidents. A structured CoW approach has effective communication through pre-job briefings and electronic Permit to Work to ensure workers understand risks, controls, and procedures associated with a particular task. Everyone understands their roles and responsibilities for safety and execution, and there are clear lines of communication between supervisors, workers, and safety teams. 
  • How can traditional CoW systems lead to repeat incidents? 
    Traditional CoW systems with paper- or Excel-based tools typically don’t feature an efficient feedback loop to share, document, and analyze insights or lessons learned from incidents. A structured CoW system connected to isolation management software and permit-to-work software comprehensively documents and tracks all risk assessments, permits, procedures, training records, and incident reports to help prevent similar incidents from reoccurring.  
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How can a structured CoW software solution help you?

Enablon Control-of-Work software provides real-time risk management when integrated with information from incident management, asset performance management (APM), barrier risk management, and bowtie-modeling software applications.

The Enablon Control-of-Work solution is recognized by third-party research firm Verdantix as offering “a fully integrated CoW solution, augmented by interactive digital plant overviews that provide real-time SIMOPs and risk management information and facilitate isolation management.”

Enablon’s highly configurable and scalable Control-of-Work solution supports integrated work scheduling, geographic information system (GIS) map-based overlays of ongoing work, clear simultaneous operations (SIMOPs) indications, and BowTieXP and iDiagrams, making Wolters Kluwer Enablon the trusted vendor for Control of Work among some of the world’s largest energy, chemicals, mining, and pharmaceuticals firms.

Manage all aspects of your CoW program

Permit-to-Work

Enables operations managers and frontline supervisors to streamline work approvals, ensuring tasks are authorized efficiently and safely.

Hazard Identification & Risk Assessment

Helps EHS professionals and site safety officers proactively detect risks, implement controls, and enhance workplace safety.

Isolation Management & Lockout/Tagout

Helps maintenance teams and equipment operators streamline LOTO with P&IDs and smart iDiagram management, ensuring proper isolations and preventing accidental exposure.

Real-Time Monitoring & Compliance

Empowers compliance officers and site managers with live tracking of permits, regulatory adherence, and detailed audit trails.
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OQ - Benefits of Enablon Permit-to-Work Software
"Introducing the Enablon solution as part of our digital strategy has greatly increased safety, efficiency, and transparency across our plants in Oman." – OQ
VP HSSE Downstream at OQ, Majid Al Saidi, describes how Enablon Permit-to-Work software has improved risk management and assessments.

End-to-end risk management for your organization

Explore the specialized and market-leading Enablon software applications designed to meet all aspects of your Control of Work needs.

  • Barrier Management
    Barrier management provides a holistic overview of the new (near) real-time state of control measures across site and enterprise. Integrating with various inputs through APIs, Barrier Vision calculates cumulative risk levels, projects these in a heat map on integrated site graphics, and allows operators to take action based on this previously hard-to-access data.
  • Barrier Visualization
    Enablon Barrier Visualization provides an overview of how barrier categories function. Collect relevant barrier data from multiple sources and connect it to a standard barrier model. Then drill down into underlying data to understand the reasons behind degradation and what required actions must be taken.
  • Critical Control Management
    Gain global insight into critical risks and control effectiveness across the enterprise. Monitor control performance over time with inputs from integrated systems and modules. Enforce ownership and accountability of controls at the site and global level. Obtain dynamic snapshots of risk with up-to-date overviews of performance and coverage of controls. Make informed decisions for continuous improvement of critical controls.
  • Contractor Safety
    Manage contractors and related safety issues, and make sure they follow the same safety standards as your organization. Gain visibility over all contractors and contract works, analyze incidents and benchmark contractor safety performance against industry peers.
  • Cumulative Risk Heat Map
    Even at smaller operational facilities, it can be difficult to maintain an ongoing overview of where and when work is being performed. Several permits, MOCs, deviations, and backlog maintenance may be active at the same time and can overlap in the same areas. Even though the individual risk in the job or task may be low, the cumulative risk may be higher in that area.
  • Field Operations
    Enablon’s innovative Field Operations tool allows you to be more productive, better prepared and better informed every day. This advanced SaaS-enabled Shift Management solution has been designed from the ground up with usability and integration in mind. Field Operations enables you to log shift data, share information and monitor processes with ease, ensuring optimal control and visibility within your shifts. Accessible anywhere, at any time.
  • iDiagrams
    Manage your P&IDs plus other schematics like never before. Create isolation plans, view plant information, and define risks and actions directly from the system. Isolation points are visually marked up on your digital P&ID. A fully integrated PTW and isolation management workflow automatically creates isolation and de-isolation plans.
  • Isolation Management
    The fully integrated Isolation Management workflow allows you to prepare and create isolation/de-isolation plans directly from the Enablon system. Equipment, location and pertinent information are all automatically incorporated for unprecedented process compliance.
  • Operational Risk Assessment
    To manage day-to-day hazardous operations, effective risk management is needed to ensure the safety of assets. Enablon's Operational Risk Assessment tracks and manages the overall cumulative risk profile of the installation, ensuring correct mitigations are in place.
  • Permit to Work
    Fully connected Permit to Work software, combining industry-leading PTW with Risk Assessments and easily scalable across global and local enterprises. Easy to integrate with Isolation Management, Non-Permitted Work, Registers, SIMOPs, bidirectional with any MMS system and many other advanced expansions within Control of Work.
  • Risk Management
    Manage the effects of uncertainty on your organizations' objectives. Go beyond compliance and gain a competitive edge by improving operational and business performance through effective risk assessments. Proactively identify and mitigate enterprise and operational risks. Ensure a consistent approach to risk management.
  • Shift Management
    Enablon Shift Management provides a flawless process for capturing, accessing, and analyzing plant events in a user-friendly way. Operators and supervisors can easily perform crucial handovers of information gathered in logbooks collected from various teams.
  • Shutdown & Turnaround
    During shutdown planning, permits and isolation plans can be pre-prepared and marked for shutdown and turnaround. These certificates will be stored in a separate workflow step and are visible in the integrated graphical overview, ensuring full supervision of possible certificate conflicts.
  • Simultaneous Operations
    Safely manage hazardous work with Simultaneous Operations (SIMOPs) that shows real-time warnings of risk levels. An early warning of increased risk levels, based on predictive analysis, advises employees how to respond. The software provides overall monitoring and gives feedback to management.
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