Real-Time Barrier Health Monitoring: Every Barrier Status Is a Claim
Paul Tours, Associate Director of Solutions Consultants, Wolter Kluwer Enablon
A green status on a barrier dashboard is only as reliable as the evidence behind it. This presentation challenges organisations to look beyond simple indicators and ask what supports each status, where that evidence came from and whether it remains current.
Paul Tours, Associate Director of Solutions Consultants at Wolters Kluwer Enablon, introduces five dimensions for assessing barrier health: availability, effectiveness, assurance, compliance and operating context. Together, they provide a clearer view of whether a barrier can perform as required.
The presentation examines how risk studies, inspections, maintenance systems, permits and operator observations work across different timescales. Connecting these fragmented signals to a shared risk context allows teams to identify degradation earlier and prioritise action according to operational significance.
An offshore implementation across 15 production assets demonstrates how live barrier management can bring safety information into daily decisions. It can help maintenance teams prioritise work, support investigations with reliable historical evidence and allow operations teams to address developing trends before they become incidents or audit findings.
Explore the full presentation below to discover how evidence, ownership and connected workflows can transform barrier health monitoring from a static dashboard into a proactive process safety capability.
