Tasreehi
Oil & Gas
Location technology and decision logic to increase safety and productivity
Location technology and decision logic to increase safety and productivity
Tasreehi combines two major pain points on the fabrication yard: safety and productivity. Working in an oil rig fabrication yard is one of the most dangerous environments in any industry. Tasreehi seeks to eliminate safety risks while increasing overall productivity.
In order to work in the yard, all jobs need a permit to work. This document is a checklist for all of the critical safety concerns for any job. It checks against other jobs in the schedule for potential situations that could cause a safety risk.
Conflicting work occurs when work in one area presents a danger to another job. For instance, our client told us about an incident where a worker was performing a task on a pipe. In another location, a worker opened a valve on a connecting pipe. The resulting pressure escaped near the first worker, causing him to nearly lose an eye.
Confined Spaces are the most dangerous form of work in rig fabrication. Enclosed spaces can trap gases and acid. Anyone working in an enclosed space must have a handler outside to monitor their condition.
Jack up oil rigs are huge structures with leg scaffoldings that rise hundreds of feet in the air. Anyone working high above the ground needs to have proper supervision. Additionally, no work can occur below the person working at height. A small tool, dropped from a hundred feet could cause a fatal injury to someone working below.
A fabrication yard contains cranes which lift tons of metal pipes. When pipes are in the air, no one can be in a safe radius on the ground. Additionally, cranes need to move from one spot to another, causing the need for a clear corridor.
Tasreehi combines location tracking, computer vision and artificial intelligence to monitor safety and productivity. Each worker wears a sensor that monitors their location, allowing Tasreehi to prevent conflicting work, dangerous situations as well as see if workers are in their job zone.
I led an ethnographic research pod to interview yard managers, supervisors and project managers about the problems they encountered. They walked us through the frictions around job safety and worker tardiness. After gathering insights and several rounds of ideation, the Tasreehi concept emerged.
I worked with an associate designer to build the UI designs for the prototype. We used a whiteboard session to map out the screens we would need. Because we were telling a story with the prototype, we switched users at certain points to show the relevant features.
Once the flow was set, we needed content. I led our multi-disciplinary team through an exercise to imagine the data and content needed to go into the prototype screens. I used a framework that led the team through successively more specific categories from the features, users, goals and finally to the data and content.
A team exercise to narrow in on the content needed for the prototype
With content and flow in hand, it was time to design the screens. Below are the major screens in the prototype.
Production directors have at a glance overviews of multiple fabrication yards, productivity and safety.
Yard managers can investigate why certain projects are delayed and re-allocate resources to remedy the problem.
Supervisors can choose from the closest, qualified idle workers and ping nearby supervisors to send those workers to the job site.
Tasreehi notifies supervisors if workers are away from the job site for extended periods or are late for work. Supervisors can send notes to each other to check on the workers and ask them to come to the job site.
Tasreehi also monitors worker location for safety. When a worker wanders into a restricted zone, it sends out alerts to nearby personnel. For instance, this worker has walked into the zone of exclusion for crane work and is at risk for being hit by moving pipes or falling objects.
Fabrication yards are large and have complex arrangements dictated by project needs, materials and logistics. Tasreehi can intelligently optimize the yard layout of a new project.
One safety incident is one too many, but safety alone is not a sufficient business case in an industry full of safety products. Tasreehi needed to have the productivity portion. Understanding the need between business and human needs and how they could work together, was a key insight from this project. One need not exclude nor diminish the other to be effective.
