Alarms. Managed. What’s next?!

Alarm management is a set of business processes that – when implemented properly and maintained effectively – lead to improved profitability, reduced risk, and improved regulatory compliance for the Unit. It’s a tool for Operations where the alarm system is designed, performance is measured, and settings are controlled to ensure safe, reliable – and profitable – operations. Alarm management boils down to a set of workflow practices for continuous improvement, where the objective is providing the Operator with high-quality alarms. It’s all about the Operators, and managing and maintaining one of their most critical support systems. Avoca Consulting provides a wide range of alarm management consulting expertise through all stages of the alarm management lifecycle.

Operator situation awareness is a key pillar in overall process safety management (PSM). A critical aspect of supporting strong operator situation awareness is the human factors that go into the design of an effective Operator HMI at their console. Avoca Consulting leads design workshops for new control systems implementation and retrofit projects to ensure best-practices are applied effectively.

Process safety management is a collection of interdependent business processes that – when implemented properly and maintained effectively – help reduce the hazards associated with the process industries and prevent the accidental release of hazardous chemicals and/or energy. Avoca Consulting leads control system HAZOP (CHAZOP) studies for plant expansions, debottlenecking projects, and control system retrofits.