Synergi Life streamlines operational risk management, offering a comprehensive digital framework tailored for identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks

With features such as customizable templates, automated risk registers, and multi-dimensional risk matrices adaptable to specific models, it enables organizations to effectively manage uncertainties and align with their operational goals. Synergi Life facilitates seamless expansion and integration, supporting barrier management and bowtie diagrams to enhance risk control strategies and ensure operational resilience. Hosted on a secure cloud service, it provides reliability, scalability, and accessibility for organizations seeking to optimize their risk management processes.

Synergi Life’s unique integration of risk management processes with barrier management allows for seamless tracking and assessment of the barriers put in place against identified risks.

This has multiple benefits for the organization including:  

  • Real-time monitoring and alerts 
  • Customizable barrier models 
  • Data-driven insights from performance over time 
  • Encourages cross-functional engagement

Digitally empowering safe, compliant, and efficient operations

Effective safety management is built on proactive planning, real-time control, and continuous improvement. Synergi Life’s Operational Risk offering brings together critical modules that support the full lifecycle of safety-critical activities — from managing work permits and inspections to audits, emergency response, and incident handling. The platform helps ensure safety is not just a policy, but a practiced and integrated part of daily operations.

Risk and barrier management

Synergi Life’s risk and barrier management modules provide a structured foundation for identifying, evaluating and controlling risk across your operations. By making both risks and critical controls visible and actionable, they support better decision-making, stronger compliance and a more proactive safety culture.

Effective risk management is essential for resilience, performance, and compliance. Synergi Life’s Risk Management module provides a structured and scalable approach to identifying, assessing and mitigating risk across the organisation. 

Core functionality:

• Centralised risk register 
• Qualitative and quantitative risk assessments 
• Risk evaluation against objectives and tolerances 
• Action tracking and risk treatment plans 
• Integration with incidents, audits and change management 

By connecting risk data to daily operations, Synergi Life supports proactive planning, continuous improvement and informed decision-making at every level.

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Understanding and maintaining critical controls is key to preventing major incidents. Synergi Life’s Barrier Management module uses bowtie diagrams to visualise the relationship between hazards, threats, and consequences—along with the barriers designed to prevent or mitigate them. 

Core functionality:

• Bowtie visualisation of hazards, threats, and consequences 
• Identification of critical barriers and responsibilities 
• Assessment of barrier effectiveness and degradation 
• Linking barriers to incidents, actions, and audits 
• Support for dynamic risk control and performance monitoring 

By making barrier status visible and actionable, Synergi Life helps organisations stay in control of their risks and strengthen safety performance.

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Process safety management in Synergi Life

Synergi Life supports QHSE leaders with purpose-built modules for managing the key processes that reduce operational risk and strengthen process safety. By standardising how safety-critical activities are planned, tracked and followed up, the solution helps ensure consistent execution across teams and sites. This improves control, enhances compliance and enables more proactive safety management.

Capturing, analysing, and learning from incidents is at the heart of a strong safety culture. Synergi Life’s Incident Management module supports the full lifecycle — from initial report to root cause analysis and action tracking. 

Core functionality: 

  • Mobile and offline reporting 
  • Barrier-based investigation methodology 
  • Root cause and consequence analysis 
  • Automated notifications and escalation 
  • Integration with audits, inspections, and barrier management 

By connecting incident data with broader safety processes, Synergi Life helps prevent recurrence and enables meaningful improvements. 

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Unmanaged change is a leading cause of incidents. The MOC module enables companies to handle organisational, technical, or operational changes through a structured, auditable workflow. It ensures all risks are evaluated, approvals are obtained, and changes are implemented safely. 

Key benefits: 

  • Custom MOC templates for various change types 
  • Integration with risk assessments 
  • Task assignments and approval routing 
  • Audit trail and compliance documentation 
  • Notifications for overdue or pending reviews 

MOC in Synergi Life provides the visibility and control needed to ensure safe and smooth transitions in operations. 

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A structured audit program is vital to sustaining safety performance. The Audit Management module helps plan, execute, and track audits across business units, contractors, or sites. Audits can be linked to risk controls, permit processes, or incidents, providing a 360° view of safety assurance. 

Capabilities include: 

  • Annual audit planning and scheduling 
  • Custom audit templates and checklists 
  • Central tracking of findings, actions, and status 
  • Integration with Incident and Action Management  
  • Support for first, second, and third-party audits 

It ensures continuous improvement and verifies that procedures are followed in practice — not just on paper. 

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Routine inspections help identify unsafe conditions before they lead to incidents. With Inspection Management, Synergi Life provides field-ready tools to schedule, perform, and follow up on inspections across assets, processes, or sites. 

Features include: 

  • Customisable digital checklists 
  • Mobile app for field data collection (even offline) 
  • Integration with incident, risk, and audit modules 
  • Dashboards to monitor overdue inspections or findings 
  • Action creation and tracking 

This module empowers frontline teams to take ownership of safety and improves real-time oversight. 

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In emergency situations, readiness and response speed are critical. The Emergency Preparedness and Response module supports planning, execution, and learning from drills and actual events. Users can define emergency scenarios, assign roles, monitor execution, and track improvement actions. 

With integration to risk and incident data, the module helps companies: 

  • Ensure preparedness for major accident hazards 
  • Monitor the performance of drills and readiness 
  • Document roles, responsibilities, and response actions 
  • Link outcomes to audits and action management 

This module strengthens organisational resilience and ensures compliance with emergency response regulations.

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Control of work

Synergi Life’s control of work capabilities help ensure that high-risk activities are carried out safely, consistently and in compliance with company procedures. The solution supports better coordination, safer execution and clear accountability across teams and contractors.

Managing non-standard or high-risk work requires structure, traceability, and clarity. The Permit to Work module in Synergi Life enables organizations to standardise and digitalise permit issuance, approval, and closure. It ensures all necessary safety precautions — including isolations, gas testing, and JSA — are in place before work begins. 

Key features include: 

  • Configurable permit types and workflows 
  • Integration with Isolation/LOTO and JSA 
  • Real-time status tracking and digital approvals 
  • Shift handover and SIMOPS coordination 
  • Mobile access for field use 

This module helps ensure only authorized personnel perform work under controlled conditions — reducing risk and improving compliance. 

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Contractors and third-party workers are often exposed to high-risk activities. With Synergi Life’s Contractor Management module, organizations can manage qualifications, certifications, onboarding, and ongoing performance. 

Features include: 

  • Contractor registration and approval workflows 
  • Compliance checks before site access 
  • Integration with audits, and incident data 
  • Performance scoring and monitoring 
  • Central repository of third-party documentation 

This module ensures that all parties — internal or external — meet the same high safety standards. 

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A connected approach to operational safety

By combining these modules into a single integrated platform, Synergi Life ensures a connected view of safety — from planning and execution to verification and continuous improvement.

Data flows seamlessly across functions, enabling a proactive and data-driven approach to safety performance.

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DNV’s Synergi Life is an HSE and Quality, risk management and ESG software, helping organizations proactively identify and mitigate risks, comply with regulations, and improve their operations.

Absolutely. Synergi Life is highly customizable to meet the unique requirements of various industries. Our team will work closely with you to tailor the solution to align with your industry standards and specific safety objectives.

While traditional risk management focuses on identifying and mitigating risks, Barrier Management specifically emphasizes the importance of physical and procedural safeguards (barriers) that prevent, control, or mitigate the impact of identified risks. DNV’s Synergi Life software provides a holistic view of your organisation’s risks, threats, barriers, and their corresponding impacts.

Yes, Synergi Life caters to a wide range of organizations, from large enterprises to smaller businesses. It offers scalability to accommodate the needs of different-sized entities.

Synergi Life is a comprehensive HSE software solution, designed to seamlessly integrate with existing systems like Azure AD (Entra ID) and PowerBI. Read more here.

Synergi Life offers comprehensive support and training programs, including documentation and online resources. You can find more details here.

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