One key challenge that organisations face is the limitation of reactive analysis techniques when it comes to audit and inspection findings, restricting their ability to proactively mitigate risks and prevent recurrence.
Solution: COMET Assured tackles this challenge by leveraging Root Cause Analysis (RCA) techniques. Unlike traditional reactive methods, which often focus solely on immediate causes, our unique COMET RCA methodology and tools enable users to uncover the underlying root causes behind audit and inspection findings.
This comprehensive approach allows organisations to understand the systemic issues contributing to compliance gaps. By providing both the COMET Assured and COMET Lite software modules within the same license at no extra cost, we offer our clients the flexibility to adopt a more proactive approach. This enables them to identify the "why" behind non-compliance and implement targeted corrective and preventive actions effectively.
Manual and disjointed assurance processes plague organisations, resulting in inefficiencies, delays, and inconsistencies in audit and inspection management. This inefficiency not only impacts productivity but also compromises the effectiveness of assurance activities.
Solution: COMET Assured offers a comprehensive solution to streamline assurance processes. From schedule planning to action tracking, COMET Assured provides a unified platform for managing all aspects of audit and inspection activities. By optimising workflows and standardising processes, COMET Assured ensures efficient and consistent assurance practices across the organisation, driving productivity and continuous improvement.
Without a centralised assurance platform, organisations struggle to maintain transparency and accountability across their audit and inspection processes. Lack of visibility into activities and outcomes hampers communication and collaboration.
Solution: COMET Assured is a comprehensive platform that simplifies managing all assurance activities, ensuring transparency and accountability. It provides web-based access that allows modern and remote teams to collaborate from anywhere. With the help of audit trails, organisations can track activities, monitor progress, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
COMET Assured is the only mainstream web-based system to incorporate RCA, it facilitates the analysis of your proactivefindings, as well as marrying these up with your reactive data from incident investigations. All in one place…COMET.
Moving the assurance dial from the what to the why!
From streamlined assurance processes to data-driven insights, our platform empowers organisations to proactively mitigate risks and protect their employees, assets and the environment.
Unlock Actionable Insights with PowerBI Integration
COMET Assured goes beyond traditional audit and inspection management by seamlessly integrating with PowerBI. This powerful combination empowers organisations to unlock actionable insights from audit and inspection data, enabling informed decision-making, proactive risk management, and continuous improvement.
This integration was designed to answer common questions about trends, and quality, focusing on enhancing the users’ ability to identify patterns and opportunities for improvement, and adopt a more proactive approach to:
Visual Data Representation: Power BI offers powerful visualisation tools, allowing users to create interactive reports and dashboards that provide clear insights into compliance trends and performance metrics.
Eliminate Repeat Failure: Proactively identifying and addressing recurring issues is a constructive approach that can help prevent them from happening again.
Foster Continuous Improvement: Analyse trends to refine audit and inspection processes, enhance decision-making, and drive ongoing improvement initiatives.
COMET Assured brings a modern, digital solution to your assurance activities, and seamlessly integrates this into COMET’s unique, coded, Root Cause Analysis taxonomy. This simple, but structured process, helps eliminate bias; guiding the analyst through a series of root maps to reach accurate and consistent root causes.
Enhanced Documentation and Context:
Having recorded a finding,you have an opportunity to capture positive, negative and neutral influences in the COMET Notepad.
Improved Analysis Efficiency:
By utilising the familiar COMET structure, investigators can quickly add additional information, facilitating a richer understanding of each finding. This streamlines the closeout process and enhances the investigator's ability to analyse data effectively.
Streamlined Investigation Process:
Identify findings for further investigation based on internal business rules or discussions during closeout meetings. This streamlines the investigation process, ensuring that resources are focused on high-priority areas.
Flexible Analysis Options:
Choose between a full COMET analysis or a COMET Lite investigation based on the complexity of the issue. This flexibility allows investigators to adapt their approach to suit the specific needs of each investigation, improving efficiency and accuracy.
With your COMET Assured license, you’ll have access to COMET Lite—an intelligent and efficient solution for investigating low-potential risk incidents within approximately 60 minutes. Here are the benefits you’ll enjoy:
Efficient Investigation: Analyse incidents swiftly and consistently without compromising quality.
Intuitive Platform: Built-in guidance and prompts will lead you through the process seamlessly.
Avoid Backlogs: Ensure no issue remains unaddressed by preventing backlogs.
Volume Incident Trending: Gain insights into incident trends and patterns.
Simple Process: Your team can follow a straightforward process without sacrificing investigation quality.
SMARTER Action Planning:
Based on years of delivering effective action plans, COMET Assured offers a unique set of SMARTER action prompts for each root cause, ensuring that corrective and preventive actions are proportionate and robust. This approach helps you address issues effectively, reducing the likelihood of recurrence.
Comprehensive Action Spectrum:
The action prompts provided by COMET Assured cover a spectrum of corrective and preventive actions, addressing both immediate concerns and underlying causes of potential nonconformity. This ensures a thorough and proactive approach to risk management.
COMET’s Audit & Inspection software module improves performance through root cause analysis and learning.
It is the only mainstream online system to incorporate root cause analysis (RCA), COMET Assured facilitates the analysis of your proactive findings, as well as marrying these up with your reactive data from incident investigations.
It is all you need, all the time.
Full Visibility
Have a complete overview of audit & inspection data, investigations, and corrective and preventative actions across your organisation.
End-to-end Risk Management Capabilities
Upgradable to include ‘full’ COMET suite - incident management, investigation, supply chain, and artificial intelligence modules.
With COMET Assured, there's no need to worry about installing or upgrading software. As a web-based application, you can access it anytime, anywhere, hassle-free.
This module can be procured as a standalone solution and quickly configured for immediate and very cost-effective results.
Deliver your audits online in real time using mobile devices.
Software integration is a priority for us because it ensures smooth data flow, eliminates redundancies, and enables our clients to maximise the value of their software investment.
If you are keen to discuss your integration requirements, please schedule your discovery call. Our tech team would be delighted answer your questions.
Everything you need to know about COMET's Incident Management module
Explore real-world experiences from our satisfied customers who have harnessed the power of COMET. From streamlined processes to enhanced safety, their stories highlight the impact of our solution.
"When we adopted COMET, we were looking for a root cause analysis tool that would help us identify underlying causes before they lead to incidents. Since adopting the tool, COMET has helped us reduce first aid cases by 29% in the last year, contributing to Corning’s best-ever safety record in 2022.On top of this, the support from the COMET team cannot be underestimated – they are always on-hand to resolve any issues in a timely and efficient manner. I would highly recommend COMET and the STC INSISO team to anyone looking for an audit and investigation tool."
"The main value to LR of adopting COMET is the newfound organisational leadership education and enlightenment as to the reasons behind incident types, particularly those which hurt us most in terms of frequency. A recent example was repeat microsleep incidents affecting our surveyors. COMET helped us understand the systemic root causes and gave the Board sufficient confidence to invest over £2 million in a preventive action programme which is already bearing fruit in terms of this type of incident reduction."
"Viridor is a relatively recent adopter of the COMET RootApp tool but is already beginning to really reap the rewards of a first class investigation system.
We’re maximising its value across the business through consistency of approach and ensuring we really do get to the root cause of our incidents so we can set the right actions to prevent recurrence.
The COMET team has been hugely helpful and supportive in getting this new process implemented."
"Probably the best root cause analysis process and toolkit. But beyond enabling us to adequately identify root causes, COMET also allows us to track trends using the root cause codes to help address systemic opportunities in our management system."
"Borr Drilling adopted COMET across the business in 2017/2018 and since then our relationship and trust with the STC INSISO COMET team has grown immensely.
Any issues are quickly resolved or addressed and a feature of the relationship I enjoy most is that it feels more like a partnership than that of a more traditional vendor/client arrangement."
"STC INSISO recently delivered the 3-day COMET practitioner course to GSK R&D (UK) engineering and safety professionals.
The COMET team created a bespoke course that was well received by GSK R&D with lots of positive and encouraging feedback."
Reveal and resolve risk within your business
COMET improves operational and organisational performance by putting people, data-driven software and technology at the heart of dynamically resolving risk.
