Safety points

Administrators can configure certain RealTime database (RTDB) points as "safety-related". Such designation allows Controllers to easily filter these points in the RTDB for reports and identify when a system change affects a safety point.

In addition, Administrators can configure which alarm states associated with a point are the result of a safety-related condition. When a safety-related point enters an alarm state designated as safety-related, the following summary windows display this information to the Controller:

• Aggregate Events Summary window

• Operational Activities Summary window

• Alarm Summary window

• New Alarm Summary window

The main driver for safety-related points is the PHMSA CRM rule for Oil and Gas pipelines (see https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/pipeline/control-room-management/control-room-management and https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/regulations/title49/b/2/1).

Administrators can configure the following RTDB points as safety-related:

• Analog

• Rate

• Status

• Multistate

• RTString

• FlowTotalConfig

• Tank