Integrated Safety Assurance Environment

The Integrated Safety Assurance Environment (ISAE) system provides a fully integrated environment for effective recording, assessment and management of safety activities and handling the resultant documents. So, information thus captured and maintained provide evidence of a systematic approach to safety and compliance with current best practice while making a valuable contribution to a Safety Case for the product, process or the undertaking concerned. The user initially records project details and then moves on to perform varying levels of risk analysis on that project, the system logging each systematic step in this process.

The main screen of ISAE is implemented in the explorer style, allowing the user free access quickly to the required information:

Within the ISAE system each project is split into these distinct areas:

	Management
	Engineering
	Modeling
	User profiles

The management side involves setting up and maintaining:

	organisations involved in the project
	a project team
	project documents
	project task
	project journals

The engineering side involves setting up and maintaining:

	Hazards
	Accidents
	Options

The analyst can use the modeling tools to design the flow of logic through the model from critical event to consequences.

In addition access is provided to all related risk analysis outputs from AQRAT and ACCA-HI, together with the full ACCA drawing facilities .

Whilst projects are split this way the system allows the user to jump seamlessly between the two sides e.g. when creating a record of an incident that results in identification of a hazard, the user can jump from one to the other. All data (including summary analysis figures from ACCA-HI) is captured in a single relational database and hence a comprehensive set of data is available for reports and inquiries as required.

This tool forms part of the MDS Risk Analysis Toolset