Yara International ASA is a chemical company headquartered in Norway. It produces, distributes, and sells nitrogen-based mineral fertilizers and related industrial products. Yara also markets phosphate and potash-based mineral fertilizers, as well as complex and specialty mineral fertilizer products.
Yara was using a paper-based permit-to-work system. They embarked on an audacious and ambitious digital transformation journey to convert all work permits from paper to digital, using the Wolters Kluwer Enablon permit-to-work software solution.
Yara aimed to protect worker safety and ensure more efficient maintenance processes across all global sites with digital work permits and software-supported workflows and automations.
Read this case study to learn about:
- How most of Yara's locations have a standardized approach for permits, hazard identification, and the implementation of controls.
- How digital permit-to-work improved communication and cooperation between Maintenance and Operations at Yara, leading to the efficient and safe execution of maintenance jobs.
- How the process to issue, approve, and close permits is much quicker and automated, and less prone to human error.
- The safety improvements, time savings, and efficiencies brought by the Enablon permit-to-work system.
