Procedures checklist

Checklists. A checklist is simply a detailed Hst of safety considerations. The purpose of this Hst is to provide a reminder to safety issues such as chemical reactivity, fire and explosion hazards, toxicity, and so forth. This type of checklist is used to determine hazards, and differs from a procedure checklist which is used to ensure that the correct procedure is followed. 

Procedural Checklist Ensures Safe, Complete Pressure-Testing and Purging of Process Equipment... 

Quality of procedures /checklists (score 5, ideal value 9)... 

A traditional checklist analysis uses a list of specific items to identify known types of hazards, design deficiencies, and potential accident scenarios associated with common process equipment and operations. The method can be used to evaluate materials, equipment, or procedures. Checklists are most often used to evaluate a specific design with which a company or industry has a significant amount of experience, but they can also be used at earlier stages of development for entirely new processes to identify and eliminate hazards that have been recognized through operation and evaluation of similar systems. To be most useful, checklists should be tailored specifically for an individual facility, process, or product. 

Checklists should be applied only during the preliminary stages of hazard identification and should not be used as a replacement for a more complete hazard identification procedure. Checklists are most effective in identifying hazards arising from process design, plant layout, storage of chemicals, electrical systems, and so forth. 

ERPs do not necessarily need to be one document. They may consist of an overview document, individual emergency action procedures, checklists, additions to existing operations manuals, appendices, etc. There may be separate, more detailed plans for specific incidents. There may be plans that do not include particularly sensitive information and those that do. Existing applicable documents should be referenced in the ERP (e.g., chemical Risk Management Program, contamination response). 

Procedure writers, procedure reviewers, and procedure evaluators all use the procedure checklist ... 

In the remainder of this chapter, an explanation and, as appropriate, an example have been included for each procedure checklist item. You may want to modify or add to these to meet your specific needs. 

Procedures. Checklists of constraints to take into account... 

A surgeon erroneously operates on the wrong knee of a patient due to the lack of safety procedures, checklists, training, and inspections in the hospital. 

Use a consistent format. The format used should make it easy to find a specific rule, procedure, checklist, or form when a safety or health question comes up. Consider using a standard 8 V2 in. by 11 in. page, hole-punched for insertion in a standard three-ring binder. This makes updating easy when procedures are revised. Additionally, on each procedure consider using the a consistent header, such as the one in Figure 1-3, that includes ... 

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