Close the gap between policy and what actually happens.
Management systems, risk assessments, audits and training define what should happen. Sysmax verifies whether critical work is being performed correctly in the workplace.
Training completion is not competency. A completed risk assessment is not a controlled risk. Documented procedures are not verified execution.
Process exists. The missing evidence is whether it is being applied.
Across energy, process industries and manufacturing, incidents, rework, quality failures and avoidable downtime continue despite sustained investment in systems, audits and training.
Competent People
Controlled Risk
Verified Execution
The three pillars of operational assurance.
From passive records to active operational assurance.
Proactive Risked Impact Alerts
Know when critical controls, competencies or mandatory procedures are not being followed. Tiered notifications alert workers, supervisors and leaders according to the operational risk created.
Reduce Risk Through Continuous Control Verification
Risk is controlled when the protocols and controls designed to manage it are consistently applied—every shift, at every site.
Prove Workforce Competency
Verify that the right people, with the right capability, are ready to perform the work safely and correctly at the point of action.
Reduce Incidents and Rework
Address the causes of operational failure by connecting competency, control deployment and correct procedure execution.
Capability is built in HR. Performance is proven in Operations.
HR develops the workforce. Operations depends on people applying the right controls, procedures and competencies to deliver safe, efficient and compliant outcomes.
What HR platforms establish
- Training and certification records
- Employee and role data
- Learning completion and expiry
- Workforce lifecycle management
What Operations must prove
- Competency at the point of work
- Critical controls actively deployed
- Procedures executed correctly
- Evidence that stands up when it matters
Built for how work actually happens.
Operational Compliance, Risk & Competency
Manage policies, controls and risk assessments while continuously verifying whether requirements are being applied across sites and shifts.
4D Competence Assurance
Build assurance around what roles must actually do—knowledge, skills, behaviours and experience—connecting readiness to performance.
Testing, Simulation & eLearning
Turn tested findings into corrective actions and measurable performance uplift across the workforce.
Two operating ecosystems. One assurance platform.
Energy & Process Industries
- Process safety and barrier management
- Safety-critical competency
- Critical control verification
- Duty-holder and regulator assurance
- Human performance and procedure execution
Manufacturing
- Standard work and SOP execution
- Quality, rework and downtime reduction
- Role-based workforce capability
- Consistent deployment across sites and shifts
- GMP and quality assurance where applicable
Human performance determines operational performance.
Energy & Process Industries
Human and organisational factors are recognised as critical contributors to process safety and well-control performance. Competency, procedure execution and supervision remain central to preventing major incidents.
Manufacturing
Operational disciplines connected across more than 100 sites.
BEVERAGE
CONFIDENTIAL CLIENT
Client identity protected in public marketing.
A leading global food and beverage manufacturer uses Sysmax internationally across operational disciplines, connecting workforce capability with the requirements of roles and work.
- 14,500+ frontline workers
- 100+ sites across multiple nations
- Role-based competency and operational requirements
- Integration alongside enterprise workforce and learning systems
Built through decades of energy and process-safety experience.
Sysmax's track record was established in oil, gas and high-hazard operations where competency, controls and evidence are integral to duty-holder assurance.
Interest beyond the core markets follows from the same operational challenge.
These are not presented as established sector deployments. They show where organisations see the relevance of the Sysmax model.
Defence
Completed pilot activity within a defence organisation, with identity protected.
Chemicals
Active interest from a global chemicals organisation, with a pilot planned.
Utilities
Interest from water and gas transmission organisations based on Sysmax's energy and operational assurance track record.
Built for leaders accountable for operational outcomes.
You run the operation. We verify it is being executed correctly.
Your systems show training was completed and audits passed. Sysmax provides continuous evidence that critical controls, procedures and competencies are being applied on this shift, at this site.
- Continuous operational compliance verification
- Risked Impact Alerts
- Early identification of deviation and rework
- Evidence for assurance and customer audits
Your safety case needs more than a training record.
For MAH environments, COMAH duty holders and PSM operators, Sysmax evidences that competent people are applying critical controls and procedures.
- Safety-critical competency assurance
- Barrier and SCE ownership
- Bow-tie roles linked to competency
- Process safety leadership frameworks
Two partnership channels. One shared purpose.
Your platform initiates. Sysmax verifies 24/7.
Leading HR platforms manage the employee lifecycle. Sysmax adds the operational assurance layer, connecting workforce and learning data to verified performance.
- API integration
- Referral and co-branded models
- Joint go-to-market enablement
- Hire to verified performance
You identify the gap. Sysmax helps close it.
When advisers identify gaps in operational assurance, competency or procedure execution, Sysmax provides a platform for sustained evidence and improvement.
- PSM, COMAH, Seveso III and OSHA support
- Continuous evidence layer
- Aligned leadership competency frameworks
- Referral, integration and managed service models
Trusted by operational leaders.
“Sysmax achieves what five of our existing tools do—and does it better than all of them.”
Major Renewable Energy Company
“Training time reduced by 80%. New starts rapidly demonstrated they could execute their role safely and efficiently.”
Global Food & Drink Company
“Sysmax has ensured we passed multiple regulatory and internal audits with ease.”
Major Oil & Gas Company
A concise evidence base for the two core markets.
Energy & Process Industries
IOGP human-performance and well-control publications recognise the importance of procedure execution, competence, supervision and organisational factors in process-safety outcomes.
IOGP Well Control Programme; IOGP Report 810—Human Performance Framework.
Industry maintenance research reports that unplanned downtime at large industrial operations can exceed $500,000 per hour.
ABB Global Maintenance Survey, 2023.
Manufacturing
The world's 500 largest companies are reported to lose $1.4 trillion annually to downtime, equivalent to approximately 11% of revenues.
Siemens True Cost of Downtime, 2024.
Surveyed manufacturers report average unplanned downtime costs of $125,000 per hour, with two-thirds experiencing unplanned outages monthly.
ABB Global Maintenance Survey, 2023.
All figures are drawn from published industry sources and do not represent proprietary Sysmax client data. Adjacent-sector interest is described as pipeline or applicability and not as established deployment evidence.
Move from compliance on paper to performance in practice.
See how Sysmax closes the operational assurance gap—every day, on every site.
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