Earlier in my career, I would often travel to refineries and chemical plants to deliver process software training. At most sites, it was evident safety was paramount. As I entered each facility, I would see the “# days since last safety incident” sign posted at the main gate. It’s an important sign but it doesn’t tell the whole story. If you were to search for safety and compliance statistics in the chemicals manufacturing industry, you’d see why.
Manufacturing companies had an average 3.0 recordable cases of non-fatal safety incidents per 100 full-time equivalent workers in 2023; with 46% of companies reporting between 11 and 20 incidents annually. According to the 2024 Travelers Injury Report, this translates to more than 6 million missed workdays in 2024. Depending on the facility's size and complexity, the cost of these events can be the hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars range. PLUS, for every recorded safety incident, there are 2 – 3 times the number of regulatory compliance issues. All this makes engineering document management systems a life-critical standard in a manufacturing plant. An EDMS ensures essential documents can be found quickly, day or night, with the assurance that you always have the right version. An EDMS gives you a centralized source of truth that aligns everyone and eliminates safety issues caused by poor document
“Managing documents is a life-critical standard. If someone follows an out-of-date procedure or works from an unapproved version, it could result in people being harmed or killed.” —Randy Nettles, Former Document Management System Architect, Dow
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Have you considered what your engineering documents are really worth to your manufacturing?