Clearance / Tagout / Lockout
Significantly reduce costs using eSOMS revolutionary tag sharing
The tagout/lockout process is perhaps the most important and time-consuming function that a plant’s operation and maintenance staff performs because it is critical to both personnel and plant safety. Errors in the tagout/lockout process can result in work delays, safety stand-downs, regulatory fines, and personnel injury or death. By automating this process, significant gains can be realized in both efficiency and safety.
eSOMS Clearance assists in implementing, controlling, and executing a plant’s tagout/lockout procedure. The system enforces the logic of plant-specific procedures to ensure personnel compliance. Clearances facilitates access and linkage to equipment isolation, work status, and schedule information through interfaces to third-party work control, maintenance management, and scheduling software systems.
The system incorporates a revolutionary method for tag and lock sharing which has been proven to save a significant amount of manpower resources during both normal plant operation and outages, without compromising personnel or plant safety.
eSOMS Clearance features:
Setup & Configuration Management – To provide flexibility in adapting to the simplest or the most complex tagout/lockout procedures, Clearances incorporates the tools to manage the setup and configuration of:
- Tags/Locks - type, operational characteristics, verification requirements, conflicts, print characteristics
- Permits – type, numbering, operational characteristics, verification requirements, attributes
- Temporary Lifts – numbering, operational characteristics, verification requirements, attributes
- General – terminology, system preferences
Clearance Management – Clearances contains sophisticated tools to manage the day-to-day preparation, storage, retrieval, execution and revision of tagouts, including:
- Mutli-class database – master, active, and archive class tagouts
- Data tracking – details, attributes, verifications, equipment/tags, clearance holders, work orders, audit
- Conflict checking – equipment positioning, tag types, work status, clearance holder status
- Print/Mobile management – forms, tags, mobile computer synchronization
- Temporary Lifts - managing equipment testing and operational requirements
- Modular integration – built-in interfaces to Equipment, Configuration Control, Action Tracking, Narrative Logs, Personnel Quals & Scheduling
Clearances interacts with Configuration Control to determine the normal equipment release configurations on tagouts, and to reduce the manpower resources required for system alignment procedures by taking credit for equipment recently released on tagouts. Clearances interacts with Action Tracking to schedule and track regulatory action requirements that result from equipment and systems unavailable as a result of tagouts.
Mobile eSOMS for Clearances automates the performance and tracking of tagouts in the field.
