PORRITT•INC
( LAYTON, UT )
CAPABILITY BRIEF · 01 · AI-Accelerated RAGAGEP Review

Thousands of pages of standards.
One cited update.

How a RAGAGEP review runs when NORMEX Standards AI does the reading and a process safety engineer does the judging. Written as a capability brief: the method, not a customer story.

THE SITUATION

An internal standard written against the last decade's codes

A facility's engineering standards — relief sizing, hazardous area classification, piping design, tank inspection — were written when the governing codes were several editions younger. OSHA 1910.119(d)(3)(ii) requires the employer to document that equipment complies with RAGAGEP, and the auditor will ask which edition.

THE CHALLENGE

Manual review does not scale

A single standard can reference a dozen codes. Each code has moved: NFPA 58 relief requirements, API RP 505 area classification, ASME B31.3 stress allowables, CCPS consequence methodology. Finding every clause that changed, deciding which changes matter to this facility, and rewriting the standard with citations is weeks of reading per document, repeated across the standards library.

THE APPROACH

NORMEX reads; the engineer decides

The engineer loads the existing standard PDF into NORMEX Standards AI, brings in the current RAGAGEP text, and adds facility context: what the unit stores, what the last audit flagged, which elements matter most. NORMEX returns the work product the engineer would otherwise draft by hand.

  • Updated standard with new numbering, effective date and signatories
  • Clause-by-clause diff view: what changed, what was added, what was retired
  • OSHA 1910.119 cross-reference: which PSM element each change supports
  • EPA RMP check and NEP readiness view where the facility is covered
  • A client report with the citation behind every line
THE OUTPUT

An audit-ready standard with its evidence attached

The deliverable is a Word document with a revision table and signature block, a diff the facility can review in a management-of-change meeting, and a compliance log that shows what was checked. The engineer's review and signature close the loop; NORMEX keeps the record of how the update was built.

WHY IT MATTERS

Review time becomes judgment time

The reading is the part of a RAGAGEP review that software can do well; the judgment is the part it should not do alone. Separating the two lets a small engineering team keep an entire standards library current, and lets the auditor see the trail from requirement to clause.

Capability brief. Describes how Porritt Inc. performs this work with its own tools and engineers; it is not a customer case study and states no customer names, contract values or measured outcomes. Results depend on the facility, the data available and the scope agreed.

Related

Start with one standard.

Bring the standard your last audit flagged. A NORMEX review shows the method on your document.

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