Power Company Partners with Trinity to Modernize Compliance using Enablon Platform

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Industry

Electric Power

Location

United States

A leading international power generating company tasked Trinity Consultants’ Digital Solutions team with spearheading an Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) compliance management system modernization program. The decision was based on a long-standing partnership between the two firms.

Challenge

The project scope included a solution search for an operations compliance management system (OCMS), followed by project implementation and ongoing support. The final installation would govern operations across eight natural gas power generating stations and set the stage for future solution expansions. The process started in March 2017 when key stakeholders, including corporate and IT staff, along with other personnel responsible for compliance management, met with Trinity in a two-day needs assessment workshop to define objectives, roles, responsibilities, system requirements, and a logical path forward.

Prior to the engagement, the company recognized several blind spots in their EHS regulatory management process. Daily activities, reporting deadlines, and key compliance requirements were being overlooked across their dispersed operating footprint, and the need for a more transparent, centralized, and standardized compliance platform was set as a top priority.

Any selected solution would have to streamline risk management at federal, state, and local levels, within the confines of a lean workforce profile tuned to the operating needs of each plant facility. Furthermore, any OCMS the company selected would have to accelerate continual process, training, and operational improvements going forward.

Solutions

Based on Trinity’s needs analysis, three software vendors proved worthy of review, with Enablon’s cloud-based, integrated risk management SaaS platform winning the bid. Trinity’s team proceeded with phase one, using Enablon’s “QuickStart” launch program at the company’s request. The idea was to get a pilot system up and running fast, establish early buy-in, and begin yielding results across a punch list of choice capabilities earmarked by the company’s corporate EHS staff. These capabilities included:

  • Incident management and reporting

  • Compliance and task management

  • Work permits and job hazard analyses

  • Audit and inspections management

  • Corrective actions tracking

  • Change management

  • Performance management

  • General OCMS requirements

Trinity and Enablon partnered together to deliver this work efficiently and effectively for the company. Trinity team members served as an extension of the client’s staff, assisting in the data migration, preparation, and set-up of the company’s master Enablon compliance database. Where Trinity provided the necessary regulatory knowledge, Enablon architects enabled the functionalities across the selected modules.

Services Performed

The team delivered a full needs assessment and vendor scorecard to select Enablon, managing the pilot launch, data migration, and master database setup. They configured the platform for incident, task, audit, inspection, and performance tracking, provided staff training and change management for enterprise rollout, and oversaw upgrades with custom workflows to support the long-term strategy.

Results

By Q3 2017, the working platform was operational. More than 250 trained users began experiencing the system, providing feedback for phase two’s enterprise deployment that would encompass richer system capabilities across expanded geographies.
By Q4 2018, the enterprise deployment was complete. Since then, the company confirmed the utility of Enablon’s platform by upgrading the system to Enablon’s Version 9 “Vision Platform” in 2022. According to the company compliance management leaders, Enablon’s platform has delivered:

  • Improved visibility across the entire enterprise compliance function.

  • Reduced labor monitoring deadlines, completing reports, and managing risk.

  • Proactive EHS decision-making based on accurate analyses and timely system alerts.

  • Overall confidence in compliance management.

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Sites covered

250+

Users trained

Fully

Upgraded