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A LEADER IN HEALTH AND SAFETY WITH PHAST

“Tata Steel has a vision to be the leader within the steel industry within health and safety,” says Andrew Hickling, Process Safety Engineer at Tata Steel Europe. Part of that strategy relies on QRAs and on DNV GL’s Phast software.

The key reasons Tata Steel has for choosing Phast are its consist-ent results, its high marks on intuitive use, and its use by the UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE).

“The HSE uses Phast for their analyses as well,” says Mr Hickling. “When we’re talking to them they actually understand what

we’ve done, why we’ve done it, the para-meters that we use, and the inputs.” This makes communication and compliance much more efficient.

“Our approach to risk management is trying to understand the hazards and the associated barriers that protect both the busi-ness and the people surrounding the site from these hazards, and to use safety and environmental risk assessments to ensure that the barriers are in place and maintained. Before we imple-mented Phast, I don’t believe we saw the challenges to our risk management policy.

Customer story – Tata Steel

Tata Steel Europe Limited is the second largest steel producer in Europe. It is a subsidiary of Tata Steel, a top ten global steel producer and the world’s second most geographically diversified. Their goal is to be the leader in health and safety within the steel industry. For quantitative risk analysis (QRA), the choice is to use DNV GL’s Phast solution.

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“When we came under the Control of Major Action Hazard Regulations in 1999, we didn’t yet have a way of predicting what would happen should our hazards be realised. With Phast we can produce a consistent approach to these hazards and pro-duce data that we can actually share with other companies and our own people.”

After the Phast implementation there was a steep learning curve. “Phast was new to us and the results it could produce were actually new to us as well. But as we got more confident using the software, obviously we were able to produce results. Now we get the same results from all the sites. Everybody is using the same software and producing the same output.”

Today, a new engineer at Tata Steel will learn to use the software in a matter of weeks. “It’s the interpretation of the results that takes a long time. Sometimes it takes some interpretation to look into the results, and why the parameters are different. We’re all constantly learning how to use the software — even now, after using it for five years, there are still things that we’re all learning,” says Mr Hickling.

One of the main benefits of DNV GL is the level of service pro-vided. “DNV GL - Software support provide us with an excellent service,” says Mr Hickling.

“If we have a unique problem – for example if we need Phast to do something that’s not quite within the functionality – usually we get a reply within hours, which is excellent compared to some of the other software packages we’ve used, that take days to produce an answer.”

The consistent results from all of the production sites in Europe are, according to Mr Hickling, the most important reason why Tata Steel has chosen Phast.

“Others in the same industry can gain from using Phast because it produces consistent results. If you’re using the same inputs, obvi-ously you’re going to get consistent results. The reports are con-sistent, so you can actually compare site to site,” says Mr Hickling.

“DNV GL - Software support provide us with an excellent service. If we need Phast to do some-thing that’s not quite within the functionality – usually we get a reply within hours, which is excellent compared to some of the other software packages we’ve used.”Andrew Hickling, Process Safety Engineer, High Hazard Support, Training and Development, Tata Steel Europe

Tata Steel is a top ten global steel maker and the world’s second most geographically diversified steel producer. Tata Steel Europe Limited is the second largest steel producer in Europe, operating two major integrated sites in the UK, one at Scunthorpe in England and one at Port Talbot in Wales. It also operates a fully integrated site at IJmuiden in the Netherlands.

Tata Steel was founded in India in 1907. Since 2004 the company has expanded globally, acquiring Asian steel producers NatSteel and Millennium Steel (now Tata Steel Thailand) as well as European producers Corus (now Tata Steel Europe Limited).

TATA STEEL IN BRIEF

� Customer name: Tata Steel � Web address: www.tatasteel.com � Market: Steel production � Employees: 81,000 worldwide � Solution/product: Phast

PROFILE

Why we chose DNV GL – Software: � DNV GL provides excellent support � Quick response time

This is what we gained: � Phast is approved by the UK Health and Safety Executive

(HSE) � Phast produces consistent results � Software scores high on intuitive use

BRIEF ACCOUNT

Andrew Hickling