Element 10×Engineering
Engineering in Assurance
Assurance, Review and Improvement
What Engineering owns here
This element holds the independent challenge of engineering — TA verification, independent technical review, audit, stage-gate assurance and the systematic improvement of the engineering function itself. Element 10 is where engineering looks at itself with somebody else's eyes.
Example documents, by tier
Standard 2
- Verification and Examination SchemeIn 1 of 3 operator registersCompany-wideAlso in EI PSM · 20 Audit, assurance, management review and interventionAlso in Process Safety · Asset integrityAlso in Safety Case · Verification and examination
- Performance Standard Annual Assurance ReportIn 1 of 3 operator registersAsset · addsAlso in EI PSM · 20 Audit, assurance, management review and interventionAlso in Process Safety · Asset integrityNot safety case critical
Process, procedure, work instruction 4
- Project Audit and Review ProgrammeIn 1 of 3 operator registersCompany-wideAlso in EI PSM · 20 Audit, assurance, management review and interventionNot process safetyNot safety case critical
- Quality Assessment, Audit and ReviewIn 1 of 3 operator registersCompany-wideAlso in EI PSM · 20 Audit, assurance, management review and interventionNot process safetyNot safety case critical
- Inspection Assessment of Projects and ModificationsIn 1 of 3 operator registersCompany-wideAlso in EI PSM · 20 Audit, assurance, management review and interventionAlso in Process Safety · Design integrityNot safety case critical
- Certificate of Inspection Compliance for Pressure SystemsIn 1 of 3 operator registersCompany-wideAlso in EI PSM · 20 Audit, assurance, management review and interventionAlso in Process Safety · Asset integrityNot safety case critical
Supporting documents 1
- Functional Safety Impact Assessment ChecklistIn 1 of 3 operator registersCompany-wideAlso in EI PSM · 16 Management of safety critical devicesAlso in Process Safety · Design integrityNot safety case critical
Guidance · outside the system 1
Informative, not a “shall”. These belong in the knowledge base, not the management system. How this works →
- Requirement Assurance, Verification and Validation GuideIn 1 of 3 operator registersCompany-wideAlso in EI PSM · 20 Audit, assurance, management review and interventionAlso in Process Safety · Design integrityNot safety case critical
Why these belong here
"If senior management is comfortable with the audit findings, the audit isn't working. Element 10 is meant to surface the problems the rest of the system has not yet been honest about."
What does not live here
- →The KPI data being reviewed —E09 Monitoring
- →The standards against which conformance is judged —E02 Policies
- →The risk acceptance behind a deviation —E05 Risk
- →The actual execution of a design review — (Element 10 governs the independent review that comes after)E08 Execution