ISRS Assessments Services

Best practice safety and sustainability management

ISRS is a registered trademark in the European Union, USA, Norway, Indonesia, Philippines and Singapore.

All companies have a management system but many struggle to get their management system implemented effectively. ISRS can help.

A management system is a framework of controls to manage key processes, organizational risks and drive continual improvement. The management system is important to the operation of every business because it guides the behavior of personnel in the organization. The management system is the management team’s main tool for ensuring safe and sustainable operations. The challenge facing organizations is “How can we get our management system to work more effectively?”

The ISRS contains 30 years of best practice experience in safety and sustainability management. Using ISRS gives necessary personnel the ability to measure, improve and demonstrate the implementation of their management system. Using the associated ISRS Summit networked software, managers can monitor system implementation online across all sites in the organization, providing valuable information for decision support.

ISRS helps you:

• Ensure business operations are safe and sustainable
• Ensure systematic and effective risk management
• Save money by reducing your accidents, process stoppages and other loss events
• Provide assurance to stakeholders that external standards are being met
• Establish or confirm regulatory compliance
• Benchmark performance against industry peers and world class
• Highlight current strengths and weaknesses in the management system
• Identify any improvements required and monitor their implementation
• Establish optimized work processes using industry best practice
• Develop employee skills and foster the right workplace behaviors and culture
• Improve systems leading to accreditation in relevant certification standards
• Establish a single integrated management system to drive continual improvement
• Provide web enabled assessment software to the desktop of employees and managers
• Standardize your assessment approach internationally – ISRS available in eight languages
• Join the global ISRS community and network with other organizations to share good practice.

ISRS describes best practice in safety and sustainability management. In addition, ISRS eighth edition includes the requirements for the below-mentioned international standards which make it an effective tool to guide organizations in improving their systems to meet certification requirements.

ISRS assessments can also be integrated with certification audits to reduce audit overload.

• OHSAS 18001:2007 - Health and Safety Management
• ISO 14001:2004 - Environmental Management
• ISO 9001:2008 - Quality Management
• Global Reporting Initiative 2006 - Sustainability Reporting
• PAS 55:2004 - Asset Management
• OSHA 1910.119 - Process Safety Management
• Seveso II Directive - 96/82/EC - Process Safety Management.

ISRS eighth edition consists of 15 key processes, embedded in a continual improvement loop. Each process contains sub processes and questions.

An ISRS assessment is a thorough evaluation of these questions and involves interviews with process owners where the questions are scored and commented. The scope of the assessment is entirely flexible determined by the size and complexity of the organization and the management team’s requirements. Detailed verification is conducted and organizations must be prepared to offer evidence to support their answers. The process scores determine an overall level of performance between one and ten. The results provide a detailed measure of performance and a gap analysis against the organization`s desired level of performance. This becomes the planning basis for improvement during the next period.

ISRS seventh and eighth editions are structured with 15 processes embedded in a continuous improvement loop:

1. Leadership
2. Planning and administration
3. Risk evaluation
4. Human resources
5. Compliance assurance
6. Project management
7. Training and competence
8. Communication and promotion
9. Risk control
10. Asset management
11. Contractor management and purchasing
12. Emergency preparedness
13. Learning from events
14. Risk monitoring
15. Results and review

ISRS represents 30 years of accumulated best practice experience in safety and sustainability management. It is not an exaggeration to say that ISRS has fundamentally changed the health and safety management practice across industry worldwide.

Today ISRS is looking to the future and shaping best practice in sustainability management to help our clients respond to new global challenges.

The benefits of having an ISRS license are:

• Access to ISRS 6th, 7th and 8th editions
• Unlimited access to the ISRS Summit assessment software available in eight languages**
• Access to the ISRS Book of Knowledge software, a repository of good practice for safety and sustainability management
• Ability to purchase ISRS workbooks and accident investigation tools
• Invitation and reduced fee to attend the annual ISRS conference and meet other users in the global ISRS community.

ISRS eighth edition helps you ensure systematic and effective control of process risks, effective evaluation of the condition of plant and equipment and improved process safety. It describes the key activities for effective process safety management including:

PSM leadership

• Management of change
• Asset integrity management
• Process safety information
• Process hazard analysis
• Operating procedures
• PSM in projects
• Pre-start-up safety review