Published on July 14, 2023
Define:
Tata Projects had 200+ projects staggered across geographies with different risk levels, including in-vicinity risks. The company had improved strong reporting culture on many EHS parameters, but was facing the challenge of analysing numbers collectively, so it could quantify and predict overall risk at site/BU/SBU or TPL level. To implement project-wise targeted initiatives, the company took the following steps:
Measure:
Tata Projects measured 14 critical parameters highlighting risks
- Site responsiveness on EHS
- Business risk
- Industrial
- Terrain
- Community risk
- Resources (inadequate)
- Staffing
- Safety assurance score
- Partner orientation
- Contractors
- Customers
Analyse:
Through an algorithm, the following parameters were analysed in the tool to create an index:
| Category Analysis | Parameter Analysis |
|---|---|
| Responsiveness | PTW Closure TAT |
| Responsiveness | UA/UC Closure TAT |
| Responsiveness | % of ZeTo Observations Closure TAT |
| Responsiveness | Potential Sever Event (PSE) Compliance Score |
| Responsiveness | RCM Walk down |
| Responsiveness | Near Miss Reporting Compliance |
| Responsiveness | UA/UC Reporting Compliance |
| Business | Industry Factors |
| Business | Terrain Factors |
| Business | Community Exposure Risk |
| Resources | Safety Staffing Adequacy Factors |
| Resources | Avg. SAI score of current RCM - Past two years |
| Partner Orientation | Sub-contractor Safety Score |
| Partner Orientation | Customer Safety Feedback |
These scores are in the ratio of ~70:30 for project operational HSE discipline and business HSE risk. The improvement of these risk indexes is operationalised through the ‘Bottom Score-Top Hierarchy’ approach and is being led by operations leaders.
Improve/Implement:
Finally, a framework was built on the spirit of transparency, data, and continuous improvement, which will provide the company with a clear idea on which project need leadership attention and support, so that the company can target its efforts.
- SRI is a predicting tool and is based on 14 input safety parameters bucketed into four categories. These parameters are linked through the site’s leading, and other safety data entered through TQDigi’lytics
- The tool predicts project safety risk through an index, which will help the company identify/prioritise projects that need immediate leadership attention/engagement. The tool is dynamic and displays the index in real-time (24 hours rolling)
- A high SRI score indicates that the project is at high risk, and vice versa
Launch and Business Buy-in Were the Key
SRI was launched by all BUs of Tata Projects on November 21st from the corporate HSE desk post various awareness sessions with site and office teams.
- This helped the leadership team know which area and which site needs focus
- It also highlighted which sites and people are not progressing to bring down the score (risk)
- This tool helps the company to effectively monitor HSE indicators. A visible change/improvement can be observed in the organisation, as there is a significant improvement in the HSE performance especially in reducing incident and leading indicators
Control:
The tool is working well on the platform.
SRI - 2.0: The next step is to integrate data from the physical audit as well .
SRI criteria in PBI