Petrochemical companies take the safety of their operations very seriously. An integral part of that mantra is the continuous
safety auditing of all installations by teams of highly trained professionals. Many of these installations are often in remote and
poorly connected locations, which means that relying upon a high speed network is not an option.
Consequently, gathering complex data from these audits is both time consuming and challenging to co-ordinate,
even within a small team. BMN were engaged to identify a solution and to deliver software to make the audits more efficient,
accurate and ultimately effective.
BMN developed a Microsoft .NET 2.0 C# Windows Forms based application that allows users to author, collate, share and publish
safety audit findings in a disconnected environment and then collate to a SQL Server based application once connected back to a network.
- The audit team are better prepared. Each audit needs to be tailored to each installation, therefore the latest versions of the audit are
made available as a package for download by the individuals in the audit team
- Distributed authoring of audit questionnaires becomes a reality
- Version control and processes to track changes are introduced
- Collaborative working is enabled. Following a day of auditing, the data is collated for review by the audit team
- The report publishing process is now greatly simplified, effortless and with less room for error
- Reports can be generated instantly and distributed in a widely available format to cater for contracted, external auditors
- Automatic interfaces and workflow actions are now in place to provide further enterprise level governance
- XML file storage of data locally
- Rich editing interface based upon Microsoft .NET Form technology
- High Quality Audit Report process
- Effective data collation and management
- Multi-user editing/reviewing
- Archiving of historical documents
- Workflow management
- Network independency
- Suite of integration components to provide interfaces to dependant management and reporting systems