Availability Profiling
Applications
The majority of R2A’s consulting work assists organisations and projects demonstrate engineering due diligence. This cost effectively ensures risks are minimised and decisions are defensible by demonstrating that all reasonable precautions are in place based on the balance of the significance of the risk verses the effort required to achieve it. Negligence does not arise because some (objective) risk target wasn’t met. It arises because the precautions in place were not commensurate with the risk.
The due diligence philosophy underlies the revision of the Victorian OHS Act and regulations which came into force in July 2007 and the opinion of the High Court of Australia. It appears to also be the direction of the Federal Government’ Commonwealth Safe Work Act to come into force in January 2012.
R2A have developed a number of processes that combine various criticality, risk and reliability tools and techniques to demonstrate due diligence for a variety of applications. A summary of each application and representative commissions follows:
Availability Profiling
Availability profiling combines criticality, risk and reliability analyses to optimise the effectiveness of the whole system / network at best cost. The process has a particular focus on credible critical boundary (external) threats and common mode failures. It uses top-down solution based approaches that are readily understood by decision makers.
Representative commissions include:
• Risk based availability management feasibility study, Department of Sustainability & Environment
• Critical assets due diligence review, Gladstone Area Water Board
• ETP Boiler upgrade configuration modelling, STaPS Alliance
• Winneke Water Treatment Plant, Melbourne Water
• Eastern Treatment Plant, Melbourne Water
• Physical Asset Evaluation Tool development, BHP Billiton
• Mt Arthur North Coal mine, BHP Billiton
• Eastlink Tolling System, ConnectEast
• Tullamarine Data Centre, ANZ Bank
• North Island black start review, Transpower NZ
The majority of R2A’s consulting work assists organisations and projects demonstrate engineering due diligence. This cost effectively ensures risks are minimised and decisions are defensible by demonstrating that all reasonable precautions are in place based on the balance of the significance of the risk verses the effort required to achieve it. Negligence does not arise because some (objective) risk target wasn’t met. It arises because the precautions in place were not commensurate with the risk.
The due diligence philosophy underlies the revision of the Victorian OHS Act and regulations which came into force in July 2007 and the opinion of the High Court of Australia. It appears to also be the direction of the Federal Government’ Commonwealth Safe Work Act to come into force in January 2012.
R2A have developed a number of processes that combine various criticality, risk and reliability tools and techniques to demonstrate due diligence for a variety of applications. A summary of each application and representative commissions follows:
Availability Profiling
Availability profiling combines criticality, risk and reliability analyses to optimise the effectiveness of the whole system / network at best cost. The process has a particular focus on credible critical boundary (external) threats and common mode failures. It uses top-down solution based approaches that are readily understood by decision makers.
Representative commissions include:
• Risk based availability management feasibility study, Department of Sustainability & Environment
• Critical assets due diligence review, Gladstone Area Water Board
• ETP Boiler upgrade configuration modelling, STaPS Alliance
• Winneke Water Treatment Plant, Melbourne Water
• Eastern Treatment Plant, Melbourne Water
• Physical Asset Evaluation Tool development, BHP Billiton
• Mt Arthur North Coal mine, BHP Billiton
• Eastlink Tolling System, ConnectEast
• Tullamarine Data Centre, ANZ Bank
• North Island black start review, Transpower NZ