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Procedures Development

Written procedures are required by OSHA's Process Safety Management Standard, CFR 1910.119. Contemporary engineering standards also place a heavy emphasis on having comprehensive, up-to-date procedures and training the employees who use them. Indeed, the development and use of effective and user-friendly operating and maintenance procedures in process facilities is essential for safe and efficient operations.

Procedures can have as much impact on process safety as the process equipment. The Operating Procedures element of the Process Safety Management Standard is one of the most frequently cited elements by OSHA year-after-year and therefore deserves special attention to ensure compliance.

Many companies assume their employees can write procedures simply by documenting what they do. However, this approach often produces ineffective procedures. There are much better approaches that can be used to write procedures that do not require any more work than the traditional "write what you do" approach. These new methods produce procedures that are much more effective and usable.

Procedures that are properly written, documented and followed help to ensure that the knowledge required to safely operate processes and equipment is made available to the appropriate operating and maintenance personnel, management, emergency response and preparedness teams, safety personnel and others.

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Primatech helps clients decide when and where procedures are needed. We help design and develop procedures according to established principles and best practices to ensure they are written for their users. We also help ensure regulatory requirements for procedures are met. While much of our work focuses on operating and maintenance procedures, we also help clients develop other facility procedures such as Safe Work Practices, Emergency Procedures, and Safety Procedures.

Primatech helps clients develop new procedures as well as revise existing procedures to meet current standards. We also advise clients on procedure maintenance, control and training.

Primatech works with clients interactively to develop procedures. We encourage the active participation of those who will use the procedures. Procedure users provide information on the actions required in the procedures and Primatech casts this information into a format that helps ensure usability.

Guidelines for drafting, evaluating and validating procedures are used. We also follow guidelines to ensure the appropriate use of language, numerical information, graphics, and lists and tables. Special types of procedural steps such as non-sequential, continuous or time-dependent are properly formulated.

Primatech is experienced in both developing procedures and assessing existing procedures. We understand the regulatory requirements for procedures and current industry standards for procedures development.

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