Sphera Control of Work coordinates hazardous work through permits, isolation planning and shift information. Evaluate the named modules against the plant operating model, including engineering drawings and dependencies between work activities. The separate Sphera Health and Safety Management profile does not establish these entitlements.
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Industrial operators with interdependent maintenance work, energy isolations and shift handovers. Scope every module, field workflow and interface explicitly. Current vendor evidence includes online/offline mobile permit execution and QR isolation verification in a specific 2026 mining implementation, not a suite-wide guarantee. Emergency Preparedness and Response, Dynamic Risk Pathways, barrier management and MDM for MRO are named scopes that may require separate licensing and implementation. Validate legacy migration, regulatory configuration and all hard stops against the site's approved procedures.
Worth evaluating when coordinated permits and isolations are material operational requirements. A simple checklist team should compare the full implementation cost with a narrower product; no savings or safety outcome has been independently measured here.
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Vendor visuals—not a QHSEtech hands-on test.
A distinct Sphera process safety purchasing scope. Sphera acquired Petrotechnics in 2019 and described ORM for Operations as formerly Petrotechnics.
| Capability | Evidence | Scope and source |
|---|---|---|
| Permit coordination | Documented by vendor | Permits, hazards, maintenance shifts and simultaneous operations share an operational view. Confirm configured authorization stages. Permit to Work |
| Multiphase isolations | Documented by vendor | Isolation plans can contain multiple work stages, point dependencies and authorization history. Isolation Management |
| Interactive engineering drawings | Documented by vendor | PDF schematics can be annotated with isolation points and reused in planning; the module also describes change tracking. Interactive Piping and Instrumentation Diagram |
| Shift handover | Documented by vendor | Logs bring together operational information, comments and alerts, including alerts from external systems. Operations Logbook and Shift Handover |
| Risk assessment and SIMOPS | Documented by vendor | The suite connects job hazard analysis, risk assessment and conflict visualization. Demonstrate the rules against site-specific activities. Control of Work suite and sales enquiry |
| Barrier and deviation visibility | Documented by vendor | Barrier management is a named suite module. Confirm the selected model, incoming data and licensing instead of assuming it is included with permits. Process Safety Barrier Management |
| Emergency preparedness and permit-context handoff | Depends on scope | The Emergency Preparedness and Response module presents response plans alongside current activities, process parameters and barrier status, and describes data exchange from permits into preparedness workflows. It is a named module, not proof of inclusion with Permit to Work; confirm response-plan ownership, data latency, degraded-mode access, drill support and interfaces in the quote. Emergency Preparedness and Response module and permit-data handoff : checked 29 September 2026 |
| Dynamic risk pathways and bowtie-informed visualization | Depends on scope | Dynamic Risk Pathways aggregates inspection, maintenance, operational, deviation and IoT data to visualize asset risk and safeguarding-barrier health against bowties, PHAs and other risk assessments. Treat it as separately scoped decision support: confirm source systems, mapping, data quality, update latency, alert thresholds, model governance and who approves interventions. Early-warning language is not a guarantee that incidents will be prevented. Dynamic Risk Pathways, bowtie inputs and real-time barrier-risk visualization : checked 29 September 2026 |
| Mobile online/offline permit execution and QR isolation checks | Depends on scope | A 2026 Sphera mining case study documents one implementation with role-based access, QR-scanned isolation points, diagram-based isolation lists, a permit hard stop when referenced isolations were unconfirmed, and an online/offline mobile permitting workflow. This is deployment evidence, not a universal feature matrix or outcome guarantee. Reproduce each requested action, synchronization rule, hard stop and audit field in the proposed version and industry configuration. Vendor case study: mobile online/offline permits and QR-based isolation verification in one mining deployment : checked 29 September 2026 |
| Maintenance-work integration and risk-based scheduling | Depends on scope | Sphera describes Control of Work across maintenance scheduling, execution and documentation, including a Risk-Based Scheduler for task conflicts, plus permit reuse and lessons learned. The Control of Work page gives ERP-generated permits from work orders as an integration example. Confirm the named ERP or EAM connector, work-order and permit ownership, supported fields, retry and reconciliation behavior, and whether Sphera MDM for MRO is a separate product in the proposed architecture. Control of Work suite and sales enquiryControl of Work in the plant-maintenance lifecycle, risk-based scheduling and ERP context : checked 29 September 2026 |
Also watch for: Current offline transaction and approval coverage requires verification. Module licensing and legacy migration need a written scope.
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Price is not publicly available, contact vendor. Request currency, contract term, site and user basis, selected modules, configuration, migration, interfaces, training, support and renewal terms.
Pricing sources checked : Partially verified. Public pages route buyers to sales. No subscription amount, billing basis or free trial was established.
Sphera Control of Work within the Process Safety portfolio, including quoted Permit to Work, Isolation Management, Interactive P&ID, Operations Logbook and Shift Handover, and explicitly selected barrier, emergency-response or dynamic-risk modules. It is distinct from SpheraCloud Health and Safety Management, MDM for MRO, ESG reporting and LCA products unless those products and integrations appear in the proposal.
Ask the vendor to identify the product, region, modules, billing unit, contract term and included services in writing.
Sphera's 2026 mining case study documents one deployment completing its full mobile permitting workflow online or offline, with role-based controls, QR isolation confirmation and permit hard stops. Demonstrate cached scope, authentication, issue and suspension rules, signatures, competing edits, failed synchronization, isolation changes and final restoration on the quoted release.
They are distinct purchasing scopes in the same vendor portfolio. This profile covers operational work control; do not infer incident management, ESG or other portfolio entitlements from the shared brand.
The 2019 acquisition and ORM for Operations announcement establish historical lineage. They do not establish a universal current Proscient alias, feature equivalence or automatic migration for a legacy installation. Obtain a deployment-specific roadmap.
That end-to-end capability was not verified in the current pages reviewed. Mobile availability alone is insufficient evidence. Demonstrate each requested action and recovery conflict on the proposed version.
Sphera describes ERP integration that can generate permits from work orders, and its maintenance-lifecycle guidance discusses SAP and Maximo as common ERP or EAM contexts. This does not prove a delivered connector for a particular version. Require named interfaces, supported fields, authentication, ownership, retry and reconciliation behavior, and price them separately.
A 2026 Sphera mining case study documents QR-scanned isolation points, diagram-based isolation lists and automatic blocking when referenced isolations were not confirmed. That is evidence from one implementation, not proof of identical behavior in every deployment. Reproduce the rule, exception path and audit trail in the proposed configuration.
They are separately named modules in the Control of Work suite. Confirm licences, source systems, configuration, data latency and integration responsibilities rather than assuming suite visibility means entitlement.
No such replacement is established. The module uses operational and equipment data to visualize risk pathways and barrier conditions. Buyers should define model ownership, source-data quality, alert governance and the authorized human decision process.
Drawn from the profiles behind the Alternatives list above: most category tags shared with Sphera Control of Work first, then the closest overlap in documented capability names, then A to Z. Ratings, search demand and sponsorship are not used; rows are shown A to Z.
Shared category tags: 1 (Permit to Work).
Differs: scope EHS Management (this profile: Permit to Work).
Same: offline, price and trial.
Shared category tags: 2 (Permit to Work, Risk Assessment).
Differs: offline partial workflow (this profile: unclassified); price amount published (this profile: no verified amount).
Same: scope and trial.
Shared category tags: 1 (Permit to Work).
Differs: scope EHS Management (this profile: Permit to Work).
Same: offline, price and trial.
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