High Reliability Organisation

The Silcar Advantage: Partnering for High Reliability

Enterprises that rely upon the operation of complex assets face relentless pressure from customers, competitors and owners to deliver lower costs, better performance and better returns on investment in plant assets.

Such enterprises must simultaneously achieve greater operational efficiency and avoid putting at risk both the health and safety of their people and the long-term integrity of their assets.

The organisations that can confront the complexity, manage the risk, make good decisions and execute with relative certainty are the ones that will succeed in an environment of ever tougher demands, scarce capital and scarce resources.

To achieve this, organisations need to combine detailed asset knowledge and sophisticated management systems with new ways of thinking, planning and acting.  We call this state, the High Reliability Organisation.

HROs manage complexity and hazards to achieve near error-free operations.  They anticipate and seek to prevent failures, while effectively containing losses when failure events occur.

For many organisations acquiring the technological, technical and cultural requirements for becoming a HRO is beyond their capabilities.  A strategic partnership with Silcar offers clients a more direct path of the achievement of HRO characteristics.

Silcar’s goal is to enable our clients to develop into HROs by bringing them knowledge and systems coupled with a work-force culture focused on loss prevention, containment and safety.

The Silcar HRO Model – Knowledge plus Capability

The capability to achieve the characteristics of a HRO arises from the combination of:

Asset Performance Management – the knowledge and systems to deliver more effective asset reliability; and

a High Reliability Capability – they way we think, plan and act as an organisation

Silcar brings clients an Asset Performance Management approach and a means of achieving a High Reliability Capability.