A Shutdown & Turnaround process is a planning process in which an industrial facility goes through a scheduled shutdown in order to perform maintenance tasks that couldn’t be performed otherwise.
Safety
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Permit-to-work
The Permit-to-work process is fundamental to guarantee the success of daily operations and help make them safer and more efficient.
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Safety Prevention Observations
Safety Preventive Observation is an industrial process that allows an organization to boost safety patterns based on behavior. In a Preventive Observation, usual work practices behaviors, both safe and unsafe, are identified.
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Risk Assessment
Risk assessment is a safety measured process that has the main goal to identify potential risks that are present in the workplace. These are identified according to non-conformity situations, processes, or equipment that may cause particular harm to workers.
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Poke-Yoke
“Poka-Yoke”, which means “error prevention” in Japanese, is a process used to prevent and solve defects during production helping reduce the need for posterior quality inspections.
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Lockout/Tagout (LOTO)
The Lockout/Tagout procedure aims to ensure that no equipment contains any “hazardous energy”, including chemical, hydraulic, or electrical.