Safety Critical Elements Management
Know your barriers, define what 'good' looks like for each, and prove — continuously — that they will work on demand.
Major accident prevention rests on barriers: the structures, systems and equipment whose failure could cause or worsen a major accident event. Managing them requires more than a list — it requires performance standards that define required functionality, availability, reliability and survivability, and an assurance regime that verifies them in practice.
BeamsConsult builds complete SCE management frameworks: from bowtie-based identification through performance standard drafting to assurance task definition, verification schemes, and barrier health dashboards your leadership can act on.
What We Deliver
- Major Accident Event (MAE) identification and bowtie development
- SCE identification and tagging down to maintainable item level
- Performance standards (FARSI) drafting and review
- Assurance task definition and alignment with the CMMS
- Verification schemes and Independent Verification Body support
- Barrier health / SCE backlog dashboards and deviation management
- ORA (Operational Risk Assessment) process for impaired barriers
Our Approach
- Identify the MAEsBowtie analysis to map threats, consequences, and the barriers between them.
- Define the SCEsTrace barriers to physical systems and tag SCEs in the asset register.
- Set performance standardsDefine functionality, availability, reliability, survivability and interaction criteria.
- Assure and verifyAssurance tasks in the CMMS, verification scheme in place, barrier health visible.