ECM aids offshore petroleum inspections

The National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority in Australia has chosen an enterprise content management (ECM) system to help with its work promoting, regulating and advising on occupational health and safety in the offshore petroleum industry.

John Townsend, CIO for NOPSA, says, "As a regulator, we demand of our customers a high degree of management and control of information and processes. We believe it to be incumbent on us to operate under these same demands."

NOPSA will use an ECM solution from Objective to support safety assessments, audits and inspections, as well as corporate administration, such as finance and human resources.

NOPSA is deploying Objective Electronic Document Management, Records Management, Workflow and Web Content Management, as well as optional modules such as Objective Offline, to form a central information resource and repository for all of its unstructured information and to manage its information-intensive business processes.

NOPSA's mobile health and safety inspectors--who travel to offshore facilities for inspections, to investigate incidents and enforce regulations--will use the solution to quickly gather information. With limited Internet or network access on offshore facilities, inspectors will be able to easily manage and synchronize their new work with the corporate ECM system using Objective Offline, according to a recent press release from Objective.

Says Townsend, "With the solution, NOPSA can rely on a robust repository and workflow engine to implement processes to support the integrity of its operations."