Knowledge base
Practical write-ups on running an incident investigation, keeping occupational risk assessments current, controlling safety data sheets, and recognising when a spreadsheet stops being enough.
Every article in the V-IMS knowledge base comes from real deployments at Varilo customers and describes the process from the point of view of the person who runs it: the EHS specialist, the quality manager, the maintenance lead, or the board member accountable for compliance. Nothing here is written purely for search engines — each guide ends with the decisions you need to make and links to the modules where the process is actually carried out.
Four write-ups covering the questions we hear most often during deployments. Each contains a definition, the process flow, a checklist and links to the related V-IMS modules.
Most plants record events correctly and analyse them reasonably well. The problem comes later: the analysis ends in a report, the action ends in an email, and the risk assessment stays exactly as it was before the event.
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Read the guideThe question “how often should we update the risk assessment” is almost always the wrong one. The right question is: what had to change for the existing assessment to stop describing reality.
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Read the guideSafety data sheets are rarely the problem in themselves. The problem is that nobody knows how many substances are really on site, who ordered them, or whether the sheet in the binder matches the version of the product standing in the store.
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Read the guideNobody abandons spreadsheets because they look bad. They abandon them because, two days before an audit, three people are reconstructing which version of the file is the right one.
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Read the guideThe abbreviations that circulate daily in safety and quality documentation — LMRA, CAPA, SDS, MOC, LOTO, PDCA, occupational exposure limits — explained in a single paragraph each, without jargon, with a pointer to where they live in the system.
LMRA — last minute risk assessment
A short check of actual conditions carried out by the crew immediately before starting a task.
CAPA — corrective and preventive action
A structured set of actions that removes the cause of a problem and stops it from returning.
5 Why analysis
A technique for reaching a root cause by repeatedly asking why something happened.
SDS — safety data sheet
A sixteen-section document describing hazards, controls and handling for a chemical product.
MOC — management of change
A formal route for assessing and approving technical, organisational and process changes before they go live.
Permit to work
Written authorisation to carry out high-risk work once defined conditions are met.
Near miss
An event that could have caused harm but resulted in no injury or damage.
PDCA — Deming cycle
A four-phase improvement cycle: plan, do, check, act.
Occupational exposure limits
Threshold values for harmful agents: chemical and dust concentrations, and physical intensities.
LOTO — lockout/tagout
A procedure for isolating, locking and tagging energy sources before work on equipment.
In a demo we walk through one real report: recording the event, analysing the causes, launching the corrective action and updating the risk assessment.
