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Green Quadrant: Process Safety Management Software 2026
The Green Quadrant: Process Safety Management Software 2026 was published on 25 June. The report provides a detailed benchmark of some of the most prominent Process Safety Management (PSM) software providers in the market. Presight Solutions is proud to be mentioned...
Barrier Management: What It Is, and Why Knowing Barrier Status Is What Actually Matters
Major industrial accidents rarely come down to a single failure. In every case, such as Piper Alpha, Texas City, Buncefield, and Deepwater Horizon, investigators found that several protective measures failed at once, and not that one system broke down in isolation....
New Security Standards on the Norwegian Continental Shelf: How to Integrate Security in Barrier Management
The Norwegian Continental Shelf operates at the frontier of safety management. Hard lessons from the Alexander L. Kielland, Bravo, and Piper Alpha incidents, and the maturation of barrier-based risk management, have made the NCS one of the most systematically safe...
Rethinking Risk Analysis: How Digital Bowtie Models Transform Safety Culture
Precision, Transparency, and Proactive Protection Through Intelligent Barrier Monitoring Key Takeaways Visual Clarity: Complex hazard scenarios become intuitively graspable, significantly improving communication between management and the operational...
Defined Hazard and Accident Situations (DFU / DSHA): How Norway Manages Major-Accident Risk in Offshore Oil and Gas
DFUs define the scenarios operators must defend against. Presight Barrier Management helps make the status of those defences visible, measurable and operationally accessible. It helps teams maintain awareness of degraded barriers, operational risk and DFU exposure across offshore and onshore assets.
Standardising Pipe and Valve Specifications Across the Value Chain
The challenge Many operators, contractors, and suppliers still manage pipe and valve specifications through spreadsheets, disconnected documents, and manual processes spread across different systems and projects. This often creates inconsistencies in specifications,...
How Shelf Drilling Improved Risk Awareness Through Integrated Barrier Management
The Challenge Shelf Drilling wanted to strengthen how barrier information was used during daily offshore operations. While technical barriers and maintenance activities were already tracked in separate systems, operational and organisational barriers often relied on...
How KCA Deutag Unified Barrier Visibility Across MODU Operations
Helmerich & Payne improves visibility into barrier health, crew competence, and operational readiness while reducing manual follow-up and fragmented processes
Presight Solutions joins the Banyan Software family to support long-term growth
Presight Solutions has been acquired by Banyan Software, a leading acquirer and operator of mission-critical software businesses. Banyan Software focuses on long-term growth and on operational independence. The acquisition marks a new chapter for Presight and...
Integrating Barrier Management with Digital Control of Work for Safer Operations
Presight Barrier Management and Mobydo Smart Permit, which is a digital Permit to Work system, are now being connected in a new implementation project for Shelf Drilling. Mobydo delivers a fully digitalised and integrated control of work (CoW) solution that complies...
Safer operations and higher uptime remain top priorities for industrial firms
Achieving safer operations and improving uptime is rated as the most important priority for industrial firms. This is a key finding from the Verdantix Global Corporate 2026 Survey. Furthermore, Verdantix report also shows that industrial firms will substantially...
From Risk Matrix Limitations to Practical Solutions
Background At the end of my two-year master's in risk analysis at the University of Stavanger, I wrote my thesis on a topic that had interested me for a long time, risk matrices. I first encountered these tools during my Bachelor's in Safety and Security...