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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.
Services Offered
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.
Primatech offers the training courses
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