Intelex Technologies ULC, a leading global provider of cloud-based environmental, health, safety and quality (EHSQ) management software, announced a strategic partnership with Safety Function – the organization behind the High Energy Control Assessment (HECA™) methodology – and the simultaneous launch of the Intelex HECA application, the industry’s first purpose-built digital application for conducting high energy control assessments. The partnership advances a shared mission to drive global adoption of the HECA™ methodology and eliminate Serious Injuries and Fatalities (SIFs) worldwide.
A New Standard for SIF Prevention
Peer-reviewed research led by Dr. Matthew Hallowell, Safety Function CEO, challenges a foundational assumption in safety: that reducing minor injuries will prevent SIFs. The evidence shows the opposite. The hazards that drive low-severity injuries are fundamentally different from those that cause SIFs and improving one does not necessarily improve the other. What has been missing is a consistent, standardized way to assess whether effective controls are in place for life-threatening hazards such as work at height, energized electrical systems, suspended loads, and mobile equipment.
“What we have learned is both simple and consequential,” Dr. Hallowell said. “SIFs are driven by high-energy hazards, and they are prevented with controls that are targeted, sufficient to mitigate the energy, and not dependent on perfect human performance. High-Energy Control Assessments, or HECA, quantify safety as the proportion of high-energy hazards with an effective Direct Control and translate this into a practical method for assessing performance during normal work. By evaluating controls during routine safety walks, HECA shifts safety from counting outcomes to assessing the conditions that indicate SIF risk, and Intelex’s platform enables this to be applied consistently at scale, with greater standardization, visibility, and actionable insight across the organization.”
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The Intelex HECA Application: Operationalizing SIF Prevention
Developed by Intelex and aligned to Safety Function’s HECA™ methodology, the Intelex HECA application is the only purpose-built digital solution for conducting high energy control assessments at scale. Where most EHS platforms offer general observation tools that capture a broad mix of hazard types, the Intelex HECA application focuses monitoring exclusively on the
high-energy exposures known to cause SIFs – and on assessing whether the controls for those hazards are actually working.
Intelex’s HECA application enables EHS leaders to:
· Identify and systematically monitor high-energy hazards with SIF potential
· Assess the effectiveness of critical controls in real time, in the field
· Quantify and trend SIF risk by location, task, critical hazard, and energy source
· Bring quantifiable, forward-looking data to leadership to prioritize safety investment where it matters most
For the first time, organizations can measure safety not by counting what went wrong, but by verifying that the controls protecting workers from their most critical hazards are in place and effective. The result is a true leading indicator of SIF risk – actionable, quantifiable, and grounded in the safety science that the HECA™ methodology represents.
SOURCE: Intelex
