Management of Change
Management of Change (MOC) is a web-based collaboration and workflow software designed to systematically manage changes in Process Chemicals, Technology, Equipment, Facilities, or Procedures. MOC significantly reduces the administrative overhead of assigning, tracking, reporting and following-up on approvals, tasks, checklists, action items and training required to implement changes in regulated and non-regulated processes.
The software complies with all aspects of the Management of Change section of the
OSHA's Process Safety Management (PSM) of highly hazardous chemicals regulations
(1910.119). It is currently in use at a variety of large and small chemical, energy,
oil and gas companies such as
Occidental Petroleum, Total Petrochemicals,
SI Group, W. R. Grace, Virent Energy,
Hess EG, Range Fuels and Gary-Williams Energy. Some operating locations track over a hundred MOCs per month using the software.
The following diagram outlines typical workflow for an MOC and the tasks required of a participant. The steps enclosed in dashed boxes are optional and can be skipped when deemed unnecessary.
Key Features
- MOC progression through stages such as Pre-approval, Origination (design), Collaboration (online discussions), Approval, Implementation, Start-up and Close-out (see the flowchart above).
- Ability to create customized forms and checklists that aid completion of tasks such as engineering and process hazard reviews, risk analysis, project checklists, punch list items and Pre-Startup Safety Review (PSSR).
- Pre-approvals and Approvals are tracked online and can be granted by one or more people or position titles, in any order desired.
- Approvers can approve, disapprove or hold MOC requests online, with a convenient methodology to retrieve and resubmit disapproved MOCs.
- Generate, assign and track critical and non-critical action items for each MOC.
- Enforce completion of all critical tasks and action items prior to MOC start-up.
- Seamless notification and training of people affected by the Change (MOC).
- Create blank MOC templates that have approvers, tasks and checklists pre-defined. Originators simply apply a pre-populated template to speed up the MOC creation process while maintaining consistency.
- Allow field personnel to conveniently submit and track requests for Changes.
- Link MOCs to documents, drawings and equipment data; track MOCs by equipment tag numbers (change history on equipment).
- Address temporary, exploratory and emergency changes, with automatic notifications of expiring MOCs.
- Variety of automatic and on-demand e-mail notifications designed to enforce MOC progression through workflow stages, action item completions and Change (MOC) awareness training.
- Allow approvers and implementers to automatically forward MOC tasks to their designated backups in their absences.
- Easily retrievable completed MOC data that includes all pre-approver, collaborator and approver comments, completed checklists, action items, and training/notification records.
- Designed as an Enterprise software, each location can individually create and configure MOCs with enterprise-level tracking and management capabilities.
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