About the client
Orica Kazakhstan is a chemical plant in Ust-Kamenogorsk: commercial explosives and non-electric initiation systems. Part of the international Orica group.
Its main customers are mining companies in Kazakhstan and several neighbouring countries.
Challenges
- Permit documentation of a hazardous plant: a regulator request means pulling up years of approval history.
- Occupational-safety instructions change — staff acknowledgement must be provably confirmed.
- Correspondence with government bodies and regulators goes on paper; response times stretch.
- Contracts with mining customers are approved by email; versions diverge.
How it works
The plant runs on d8n with data processed in Kazakhstan: for a company with a foreign shareholder, data jurisdiction was the first question at approval.
Rights in the system equal the employee’s rights, and every action goes into the audit log: the multi-year approval history of a permit document is assembled from the log in full.
A separate contour for internal regulations: approval, publication, distribution and acknowledgement of instructions — one process instead of four actions in three systems.
Standard configuration; updates arrive with each platform release. The system covers the administrative contour: procurement, legal, HR, management; government correspondence goes through the national exchange centre.
System scope
Results
- 72 document types in daily use.
- The approval history of any permit document is assembled in the audit log.
- Occupational-safety instructions go through a full cycle in one process: approval, publication, distribution, acknowledgement.
- Correspondence with government bodies and regulators is electronic, via the national exchange centre.
Who it is for
Relevant to companies under industry supervision: chemicals, mining, energy, pharmaceuticals. Where to start: ask yourself — if an industrial-safety instruction changes tomorrow, how will you prove staff acknowledgement? And check with the vendor where the data physically resides and how to pull the action log for a document.
Questions and answers
How do you confirm staff acknowledgement of occupational-safety instructions?
In the internal-regulations module, approval, publication, distribution and acknowledgement are one process.
What do you show a regulator who asks for a document’s history?
Every action is recorded in the audit log — years of approval history can be assembled in full.
Where is the document data of a hazardous plant processed?
In Kazakhstan: for a supervised company this was a condition of choice.
Security and legal validity
- Certified under ST RK ISO/IEC 15408-3-2017, assurance level EAL 4 (No. KZ.7500186.05.01.69209, valid until 26 May 2029); a digital signature has the force of a handwritten one under the Law of Kazakhstan “On Electronic Documents and Digital Signatures”.
- Rights in the system equal the employee’s rights; operations are recorded in the audit log. Legally binding correspondence with government bodies goes through the national e-document exchange, with no paper duplicates. Data is processed and stored in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
