Risk Assessments
All facilities are unique in terms of storage, manufacturing, handling of hazardous materials. Site-by-site risk assessments provide data that allow companies to determine the risk level for health and ecological damage as a result of improper control measures. Based on determined risk levels, organizations need to manage and track risk mitigation plans, which implement controls and monitor activities to reduce potential environmental or safety issues.
TrackWise Risk Assessment Solutions
TrackWise is a flexible and fully-configurable enterprise quality management system, which enables your organization to automate and improve its risk assessment processes. TrackWise consolidates disconnected systems and improves control by managing all facility risk assessments and evaluations, including scheduling and planning activities. TrackWise provides enterprise reporting and management dashboards, which ensure identification and evaluation of all risk areas, and enable preventive actions to be prioritized, scheduled and taken before problems occur.
| Challenge | TrackWise Solution |
|---|---|
| Creating a structured, automated process for completing facility assessments per EPA standards and best practices | TrackWise's 24/7 business rules engine automatically alerts EH&S personnel when facility risk assessments are required, based on pre-defined schedules. |
| Proactively identifying and mitigating risk | Risk scores may be established based on factors including results from prior facility evaluations and the extent to which a facility handles hazardous waste. Scores can be used as indicators for trending and analysis. |
| Reducing risk by ensuring consistent and approved risk assessment processes | TrackWise's workflow engine enforces strict procedures, so that every new piece of equipment or new process is evaluated for risk based on pre-defined criteria. |
| Generating risk assessment reports that identify problem areas an required actions | Authorized users may generate reports summarizing the status of each risk profile, the related control measures, and any revised risk levels. Integrated dashboards provide up to date key performance indicators. |
| Creating transparency between process safety records and other EH&S applications | TrackWise enables your organization to associate facility assessments to other records in TrackWise, including investigations, corrective and preventive actions, inspections, and audits. |
| Automatically schedule follow-up assessments | Once an assessment has been approved, TrackWise automatically schedules follow-up assessments to ensure that risk profiles are always up to date. |
| Ensuring effective training management to reduce risk | TrackWise enables organizations to define their own unique safety training curriculum and related training requirements such as classes, SOPs, and other topics. Automated scheduling creates training assignments when re-training is required and electronic alerts escalate latent training assignments. |
| Restricting access to non-authorized personnel | TrackWise security ensures that users may only access data relevant to their job, location and/or themselves. |
| Automating and enforcing corrective and remedial actions | After facility assessment findings have been reported and recommendations are saved, the TrackWise workflow engine ensures timely assignment and completion of corrective action and remedial action requests. |
| Generating accurate reports on a pre-scheduled and as-needed basis for management review and regulatory compliance | Reporting tools enable users to generate customizable reports based on any criteria and defined schedules. TrackWise generates and distributes AutoReports (emailed as PDF attachments), which enable the controlled distribution of information to recipients inside or outside of the company. |
| Effectively managing changes resulting from risk assessments | TrackWise centralizes and automates the change control process by allowing authorized users to initiate change requests via the system's web-based interface. Change control records may be linked to other EH&S, quality, and regulatory records providing all background information and critical data necessary to assess impact and formulate action plans. |

