The Connected Worker Platform Built for Chemicals Manufacturing’s Process-Safety Standards
As process-safety knowledge retires with your senior operators, Poka helps frontline teams execute every permit, MOC, and batch to standard at every site you run.
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The Top Challenges Chemicals Manufacturers Face Today
Chemicals manufacturers face rising pressure. Rules keep changing. Processes change often. Key knowledge slips through the cracks between shifts.
Heightened safety & regulatory compliance
OSHA PSM, EPA RMP, Seveso, REACH, and GHS all require signed, traceable records. Every permit-to-work, MOC, LOTO, line clearance, and PHA action needs proof. Paper records and scattered spreadsheets raise real risk: an audit finding, a process-safety event, regulatory action, or a release. Logoplaste cut safety incidents by up to 90% by moving to digital safety forms.
Process complexity & change management
New formulations, raw materials, and rules mean procedures change often. Every operator needs the latest version. Email updates and binder changes don't prove who read them. Operators can end up working from an old procedure during an MOC.
Skills gap & knowledge retention
Senior operators and engineers hold the know-how to recover from a unit trip, troubleshoot a column, or handle a relief event. They're retiring faster than plants can replace them. This gap drove Domtar to launch its Manufacturing Knowledge Development program company-wide.
Fragmented systems & limited frontline visibility
In most chemicals plants, work and tracking systems are disconnected. Quality, safety, and process data sit in paper logs, often summarized hours later. Leaders spend more time gathering data than acting on it. When something goes wrong, it takes too long to piece together what happened.
Help Your Chemicals Frontline Make Process Safety and Batch Discipline Everyday Practice
Poka is a connected worker platform for complex, high-stakes plants. It brings your procedures, batch records, permits, training, and data into one system on the floor. Every operator, technician, and supervisor can use it.
Process safety you can prove
Poka runs every permit-to-work, MOC, LOTO, and line clearance in order. Each one gets a signature, a timestamp, and an audit trail on demand. Logoplaste cut safety incidents by up to 90% and NCRs by 81.5% on Poka.
Controlled change management
When a formulation, raw material, or procedure changes, Poka pushes the latest version everywhere at once. It tracks who read it. No operator works from an old procedure during an MOC.
Preserved process knowledge
Poka captures senior operator and engineer know-how as digital troubleshoots before it's lost. Domtar built its Manufacturing Knowledge Development program on Poka. Customers retain workers 38% longer.
Higher asset reliability and OEE
Closing the gap between operators and reliability teams cuts unplanned downtime on reactors, columns, and lines. Church & Dwight saw a 10% OEE gain within six weeks of adding Poka to its escalation process.
Stronger regulatory compliance
Every form, deviation, and corrective action traces to a worker, unit, and shift. OSHA PSM, EPA RMP, Seveso, and REACH evidence stays organized and ready for audit.
Measurable productivity gains
Operators get the right answer in seconds, not a supervisor call. Poka customers see 24% higher productivity on average.
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The Poka Capabilities That Matter Most for Chemicals Manufacturing
Poka is one unified platform. Each feature builds on the others. Together, they build a culture of continuous improvement.
Process safety is the price of operating. Poka sends permit-to-work, LOTO, confined-space, MOC, and batch-record forms to the field. It enforces sign-offs and steps in order, and flags missed or out-of-spec checks right away. Logoplaste cut safety incidents by up to 90% and NCRs by 81.5% by moving these workflows off paper.
Up to 100% reduction in paper-based processes | Defensible PSM audit trail
Retiring process engineers hold the know-how to recover from a unit trip or troubleshoot a column. Poka captures it as digital troubleshoots and SOPs tied to specific assets. Industrial AI turns old P&IDs, PSM manuals, and MOC packages into structured instructions automatically. Domtar built its company-wide knowledge program on this.
Poka AI answers operator questions using your own PSM documentation, procedure library, and OEM manuals. It runs inside enterprise guardrails built for regulated work. Purpose-built agents surface deviations and guide operators through abnormal events step by step. The right answer reaches the unit in seconds, not after a supervisor call.
On reactors, columns, and lines, downtime often starts with a lag. An operator spots a problem. A technician arrives without context. Poka captures issues with asset context and routes them automatically with full history. Church & Dwight saw a 10% OEE gain within six weeks of adding Poka to its escalation process.
20% to 40% faster issue resolution | Full audit trail from report to resolution
Poka tracks skills and certifications for employees and contractors in one matrix. Training happens at the point of work. Expiring certifications get flagged automatically. That matters when a contractor on a turnaround must meet the same standard as your own crew.
45% faster onboarding | 38% higher workforce retention
How Poka Turns Daily Work Into Continuous Improvement
The best chemicals plants get safer and more reliable over time, shift by shift, batch by batch. Each resolved event makes the next one better.
Poka treats operators as content creators and problem solvers, not just rule followers. GAF scaled factory knowledge through Poka-powered Kaizen events. Huhtamaki's operators became content creators, lifting training results by 140%. Logoplaste rebuilt trust, connection, and pride on the floor. Poka captures every near-miss, deviation, and troubleshoot and turns it into the new standard.
Over time, incidents drop and batch integrity improves. Reliability compounds shutdown over shutdown. Poka preserves senior knowledge instead of losing it. The gains flow straight to OEE and the bottom line. Poka makes that possible.
Whether You Run the Line or the Plant, Poka Works for Your Team
You might run a continuous chemicals plant, lead process safety at one site, or roll out Poka across many sites. Either way, it adapts to the workflows your teams and contractors run.
Operators get the latest approved procedure for every unit, batch, startup, shutdown, and line-clearance event. The AI Assistant answers their questions using your PSM documentation. It walks them through abnormal events.
How Leading Manufacturers Use Poka
Logoplaste
Logoplaste: Reducing safety incidents by 90%
Logoplaste replaced paper safety and quality forms with digital workflows. It digitized onboarding, safety, risk, and quality at the same time. Safety incidents dropped up to 90%. NCRs dropped 81.5%. Operators feel that accountability.
Church & Dwight
Church & Dwight: A 10% OEE boost in six weeks
Church & Dwight embedded Poka into its escalation process and saw a 10% OEE gain within six weeks. Closing the operator-to-maintenance gap on big assets drives reliability and throughput.
Domtar
Domtar: From silence to a living knowledge program
Domtar launched a company-wide Manufacturing Knowledge Development program on Poka, backed by its SVP of Operations, to capture process knowledge before it retired. The shift was immediate. In a single day, 22 team members reviewed and helped solve a problem. Downtime dropped, tied directly to digitized training.
Go Deeper on Connected Work for Chemicals Manufacturing
Frequently Asked Questions
Running a Safe, Compliant Chemical Plant Shouldn’t Be a Hassle.
Poka gives your team one place for the work instructions, safety checks, and quality standards they rely on every day:
- Digitize SOPs, JSAs, and hazard protocols your operators already use
- Standardize training across shifts without adding to your workload
- Keep quality and compliance visible, without extra reporting overhead
- Give every operator chemical safety training customized to their role, plant, and shift
Take just 30 minutes to see if it's a fit for your floor.
With paper, we never knew who did what. Now, every checklist is signed and validated. People feel accountable and proud.
QHSE Manager, Logoplaste
