Bring your Safety Case to life and help support day to day decision making.
The Safety Case and QRA set out the basis for safety, but they take an idealised view based on an ‘averaged’ or ‘100% ok’ assessment of the hazard management process.
Such an approach is fine when demonstrating that the installation is fit for purpose overall, but it does not reflect how the risks change with changing circumstances.
In reality, things are in near constant flux:
• Safeguards may develop faults or be down for maintenance
• Different activities may be taking place on the installation
• Organisation and resourcing/ logistics may change
Although we assess and plan our activities carefully, we need to understand how the risks are changing, what the risk drivers are and ensure that risks remain As Low As Reasonably Practicable – ALARP.
How do we know if the cumulative risks are unacceptable? We need a mechanism to alert us to this so we can stop the high risk activity or implement additional measures to bring risks back to ALARP.
The challenge is to turn a static Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) in the Safety Case into a dynamic tool that can inform real world decisions based on an installations operational status at a given point in time.
The solution – CORAM – a framework to assess the range of changes and situations that can affect risks on a day to day basis.
CORAM is highly flexible and provides a complete picture of operational risks. It is able to assess:
CORAM is built upon a powerful and flexible web-based platform that employs the latest web technologies to bring risk information instantaneously to the user.