Action Manager
The FoCul Management of Change for Process Safety (MOC) application has been developed from best practices recommended by the AIChE’s Center for Chemical Process Safety. Our clients with a legal duty under The Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 2015 (COMAH15) and use MOC to apply ‘Plant modification and Change Procedures guidance’ to their business.
The Management of Change tool is highly configurable so that it can be adapted to a wide variety of change procedures. It can be simplified for straight-forward modifications or re-configured for organisational change.
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What will MOC bring to your business?
Formal change control
A central location for process change requests and plant modifications to provide traceability, transparency and promote management procedures
Best practise hazard review and classification
Of engineering hardware and design, engineering methods, process conditions, process control, environmental conditions, operating methods, and safety.
Robust stage gates
to ensure that the MOC process is consistent and robust. The Stage Gate processes locks off information as it is approved and there is an audit log showing the workflow steps.
Multi-functional approvals
To ensure the relevant departments provide approval as required at each stage, for example operations, technical, SHE, quality
Action management
Central action repository, actions can be interlocked to ensure stage-gates are not passed without the relevant actions being complete. Additional verification on completion can be set if required
Temporary modification control
including periodic risk assessment re-approval
Case Studies
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Engage 2024 draft conference slides
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Care with Azure Just in Time ( JIT ) access deafault behaviour
The Azure "Just in Time" ( JIT ) feature for controlling access to servers is very useful but be careful with it. There are three options, of which the 3rd is the default. My IP Other IPs All configured IPs ( actually all IPs if nothing is configured ) The best choice...
Azure Policy based Site-Site (S2S) VPNs on Azure – You may not want to choose a Policy Based VPN at all.
Just some frustrating learning from the last few days. VPNs fall into two broad classes : Route Based Policy Based When you create a new VPN Gateway in Azure you get to choose which one you want – but be careful ! If you choose Policy Based VPN at this point you will...
Domino Oddness on Azure – 38 second delay in sending mail from web UI
We have had an odd issue on Domino that we have not been able to resolve despite lots of input from HCL. I just wanted to post it in case any other person comes across it. The symptom is a Domlog entry for 38 seconds when you trigger an email via XPages. This happened...
Testing Matters – Don’t Let Users Test Your Code!
Our presentation from Engage 2022, Bruges, Belgium, on 24th May 2022. Testing Matters – Don’t Let Users Test Your Code! An introduction to automated testing, focusing on End-to-End Testing of browser-based applications Testing Matters v1.0.0a 240522
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Azure Policy based Site-Site (S2S) VPNs on Azure – You may not want to choose a Policy Based VPN at all.
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