Covaris Safety Management System

The Covaris Safety Management System is an established system based on the Australian and International Standards and engineering best practice in safety engineering. It enables the systematic examination of the hazards associated with plant and machinery, leading to a documented safety improvement scheme and an ultimately safer workplace.
Safety risk assessment relies on engineering judgemental decision, based on the various applicable standards. These decisions are supported by qualitative methods complemented as far as possible, by quantitative procedures (e.g. data from CMMS).
SAFETY POINT is a self-contained web enabled application, which is designed to capture and manage all necessary documentation from the beginning to the end of the process. The main steps through which this system provides a complete and comprehensive safety solution are:
• Operational requirements – Operational requirements of an asset are identified.
• Hazard identification – Hazards, hazardous situations and hazardous events for the asset in its operational
environment are registered.
• Risk evaluation – For each hazard a risk profile is developed. This will quantify the process using sound
engineering judgement.
• Safety measures – The identified safety measures (e.g. safeguarding, painting, interlocking, emergency
stop switch,…) are implemented to eliminate identified hazards and/or reduce risk level.
• Residual risks – the residual risks after implementing the safety measures are documented and compared with
the original risks to demonstrate safety improvement.

Hazard Identification & Risk Evaluation

Before a hazard can be analysed and any risk associated with the hazard estimated, each hazard must first be identified. In this phase, a list of typical hazards is given and guidelines for hazard identification are provided.
The outcome of Hazard Identification process for each machine is added to the machine risk assessment documentation. After hazard identification, risk evaluation is carried out for each hazard by determining the risk rating.
The risk rating model is based on three elements:
• Exposure
• Likelihood
• Potential Severity
Documentation
All documentation is provided in the state-of-the-art Covaris application called SAFETY POINT, used in several industrial locations (e.g: aviation, chemical, ...). This application will be delivered and remain as the property of the client at the end of each project.
This database is designed to capture and monitor the following information:
• A complete list of plant machinery included in the process
• Machinery operational information including digital machine photo
• A list and the nature of all identified hazards for each machine
• Risk assessments and safety jobs proposed for each machine
• CAD drawings for any recommended safeguarding system
• Different report capabilities for the system
• Multiple energy source identification and machine isolation
procedures