Compliance management system and method

A computerized method of managing a compliance event for a natural gas distribution system, the compliance event including at least one of a cathotic protection event, a danger tags event, a poly-pipe event, an odorant injection event, and a service line scheduling event, the method comprising:

• providing a computer system including at least a main computer and a remote computer adapted to communicate with the main computer;
• maintaining a database including the compliance events and a plurality of resources, at least a portion of the database accessible by the main computer;
• periodically scanning the database to identify compliance event requiring a response;
• scanning the database to identify one of the plurality of resources to respond to the compliance event requiring the response;
• scheduling one of the plurality of resources to respond to the compliance event requiring the response;
• downloading to the remote computer the schedule of one of the plurality of resources to respond to the compliance event;
• and
• uploading from the remote computer to the main computer a completion information associated with the resource responding to the compliance event.

A compliance management system for managing compliance of a natural gas distribution system, the compliance management system comprising:

• a main computer;
• a remote computer adapted to communicate with the main computer;
• a database accessible by the main computer, the database including a plurality of compliance events, a plurality of resources, and a plurality of units, each of the plurality of compliance event and the resources associated with at least one of the plurality of units;
• a main program accessible by the main computer for maintaining the database, the main program including a scheduling program for scheduling one of the plurality of resources to perform one of the plurality of compliance events by selecting the resource having the unit substantially similar to the unit associated with the compliance event to be performed;
• a remote program accessible by the remote computer and accessible by at least one of the plurality of resources for receiving from the main computer at least a portion of the compliance event to be performed by the resource, the remote program having an interface operative to display and periodically update the portion of the compliance event to be performed by the resource such that when the main program is modified to operatively maintain the plurality of compliance events and the plurality of resources, only the interface of the remote program is modified for the interface to operatively display and update the compliance event to be performed by the resource.

A computer readable medium having executable instructions for performing a method for compliance management comprising:

• maintaining a database identifying at least one compliance event and a resource;
• scanning the database on a periodic basis to determine the compliance event to be performed;
• associating the compliance event with the resource to perform the compliance event based upon a unit associated with both the compliance event and the resource;
• scheduling the resource to perform the compliance event;
• entering a completion information of the compliance event based upon completion of the compliance event by the resource;
• and
• generating a report including at least one compliance event and a portion of the completion information of the compliance event.