Litre Meter, the UK-based flowmeter specialist, has rolled out the first in a comprehensive series of oil and gas industry safety surveys set to be introduced across 2014.
The survey, which centres on safety integrity levels (SIL), is designed to enable manufacturers and resellers to test assertions about functionality, construction and quality of manufacture.
Safety integrity levels pertains to the likelihood that, should it be called into action, a safety instrumented function will prove effective.
Litre Meter CEO, Charles Wemyss, said the campaign came in response to the “increased focus on safety issues in the UK offshore sector over recent years”.
“We want to make sure that our manufacturing focus is on safety in relation to both the environment and industry trends,” explained Mr Wemyss.
The most recent data from the Health and Safety Executive suggests a significant reduction in offshore hydrocarbon releases in the UK, with 27 incidents reported in quarter three of 2013.
Mr Wemyss commented: “Issues surrounding the environment and hydrocarbon releases, asset aging and life extension drive the focus on safety.”
Litre Meter, he added, was committed to helping in the process of “recognising hazards” and “reducing risk”. This included enabling engineers to take “ownership of risk and asset integrity through proving assertions about the functionality and construction of instruments”.
Mr Wemyss continued: “The HSE has defined asset integrity as the ability of an asset to perform its required function effectively and efficiently while protecting health, safety and the environment.
“Asset integrity management was defined as the means for ensuring that the people, systems, processes and resources that deliver integrity are in place, in use and will perform on demand over the asset’s lifecycle.
“Being able to prove assertions about the manufacture and functionality of equipment are vital in this process.”
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