For corporations that operate multiple PSM-covered facilities, the desire to harmonize safety processes across all sites is more than just an efficiency goal—it’s a necessity. One of the most critical of these processes is Management of Change (MOC). A common MOC procedure can ensure regulatory compliance, promote organizational learning, and simplify enterprise-level reporting. But while the goal is clear, the path to achieving it is often fraught with complexity.
The Vision: A Common MOC Procedure
At the corporate level, safety and engineering leaders often strive to develop a single, standardized MOC procedure that reflects corporate policies and satisfies OSHA 1910.119(l) and similar regulations worldwide. The intention is that this single process can be syndicated across all facilities, creating consistency in how changes are proposed, reviewed, approved, and verified.
But this vision quickly runs into the reality of operations on the ground.
The Challenge: Site-Specific Complexity
Each facility has its own unique:
- Organizational structure
- Approval workflows
- Risk assessment practices
- Scoping checklists
- Data exchange requirements with on-premise maintenance, document control, and asset management platforms
- Report formats for audits and regulatory compliance
Even something as seemingly simple as a risk matrix might be configured differently depending on the site’s local regulatory obligations or internal standards. As a result, a “one-size-fits-all” MOC software implementation is rarely effective. Most systems either become too rigid to be useful or require expensive and ongoing custom development for each site—driving up costs and dragging down adoption.
The Solution: A Configurable MOC Platform
This is where FACILEX® comes in.
Gateway Group’s FACILEX® MOC platform was built with the reality of multi-site complexity in mind. It offers a flexible framework that allows corporate leaders to define a common MOC procedure while enabling each facility to tailor the system configuration to meet local needs—all without additional programming.
FACILEX® provides:
- Configurable lifecycles and forms for each site
- Site-specific scoping checklists and risk matrices
- Integration tools for connecting with existing on-prem systems
- Role-based access control to handle complex organizational hierarchies
- Standardized and site-specific reporting—all in the same platform
- Multilingual support – all Microsoft supported languages
This flexibility means that MOC processes can be truly harmonized at the corporate level while remaining practically effective at the site level.
Aggregated Insights, Enterprise Visibility
One of the biggest benefits of adopting a platform like FACILEX® is its ability to aggregate data across all sites. This enables:
- Enterprise-wide MOC metrics and KPIs
- Identification of common risk trends
- Faster rollouts of best practices and lessons learned
- Simplified compliance audits across jurisdictions
It’s the best of both worlds: local effectiveness and global oversight.
