Industrial maintenance shutdowns are critical for ensuring the safety and efficiency of facilities. However, these shutdowns, by their very nature, involve a variety of inherent risks and potential accidents. Understanding these hazards is crucial for planning effective safety measures and ensuring a safe work environment. Here’s a look at some of the most common risks and how they can impact maintenance activities.
As industries evolve, so do the methods and technologies employed to ensure the safety of workers during maintenance turnarounds. Confined space monitoring, a critical aspect of these operations, has traditionally relied on manual methods that pose inherent risks to workers and managers alike. In contrast, digital confined space monitoring offers a safer, more efficient alternative, mitigating health and safety hazards and improving overall operational effectiveness.
In the dynamic landscape of industrial maintenance, the digitalization of confined space monitoring has emerged as a pivotal strategy for enhancing safety and operational efficiency. As companies explore the possibilities offered by advanced technologies, several questions arise. Here, we address the most commonly asked questions about digitalizing confined space monitoring.
On world Health & Safety Day 2021, Hindalco Industries spotlighted VISICS
Following a successful pilot in India, Hindalco proudly featured VISICS as a safety partner for achieving it’s goal of a “safe, healthy and compliant workforce”.
The VISICS solutions implemented were:
The VISICS footprint in India has continued to rapidly expand since the pilot took place in Q1 2021. To support this expansion VISICS has opened a headquarters in India with local representatives and service support.
During turnaround projects, it’s essential to have the right overview of information, at the right time.
With the release of our web application, a new feature in the VISICS monitoring system, our operators, supervisors, and contractors can easily have relevant actionable insights at their fingertips.
Our goal is to bring complex and simple data alike together in a meaningful and easy-to-understand manner – breaking down data silos.
For our digital monitoring operators, the web application dashboard contains static emergency-related information, weather forecasts, safety guidelines, and other quick need-to-know information. (See photos below!)
It also enables operators to easily document occurrences and incidents, digitally, with supporting documentation such as text, video, or photo footage. With the click of a button, these reports can be exported for easy end-of-day handover or incident escalation.
We’re excited to be piloting the web application during a major turnaround project at a refinery in Wales, in February.
Stay tuned to learn more about the pilot and results!
There goes our biggest project of the year, off to the UK to set a new world record!
During this turnaround, our mobile VISICS solution will be monitoring 160 confined spaces – able to see what’s happening inside the confined space, communicate with the engineers performing the maintenance activities and register exactly who has entered and left the manholes and at what time. All for a safer and more efficient turnaround!
Monitoring takes place onsite with our fully redundant server solution.
A big thanks to our trusted partner ESS Safeforce.
How VISICS recently prevented a potential fire at a German refinery. In perfect corporation with our partners Dräger and eVision Industry Software. Click here to download.
Wesseling, November 2019 – Last October the digital VISICS system for safe and efficient turnarounds was installed at a refinery in Wesseling. Combined with Dräger’s solutions for remote gas detection, the VISICS system was brought in to accomplish a safer and more efficient turnaround by digitally monitoring the confined spaces. No more than three days later, on October 31st 2019, the VISICS system proved its added value by preventing a potential fire.
