PSSR Checklists

In order to carry out PSSR, the team will require a suitable checklist. Relevant process safety items must be addressed in the inspections by having key topics defined fully within the PSSR checklist (CCPS, 2004). A typical checklist to be completed by the PSSR team includes the following but not limited to. 

Employee Participation Employees from various departments can have input into the PSSR program as developers, team leaders, team members, or interviewees during the reviews. The PSSR procedure and PSSR checklist documentation provides clear evidence of how your organization encourages employee participation. 

CHAPTER 6 - Methodologies for Developing Customized PSSR Checklist Items... 

Notice that the short-form and long-form PSSR checklist examples both address the following topics, but with varying levels of required effort depending upon the risk-based assessment. 

Chapter 6 - Methodologies for Compiling and Using Your PSSR Checklist describes electronic options for expanding or collapsing the PSSR long-form checklist. 

An effective pre-startup safety review (PSSR) is centered on the tools a company provides to assist its staff in evaluating the safety and operational readiness of the trigger events it evaluates. One tool many companies provide is a PSSR checklist or electronic database of items to consider. This chapter examines options and considerations for compiling the items applicable to a facility. 

Depending upon the specific aspects of a facility s processes and the materials, intermediates, and products involved, the PSSR checklist questions should be customized to match those aspects. Consider selecting them in a way that guides the PSSR team to analyze the known hazards and associated risks for the total site. This chapter provides guidelines that may assist in building a database of standard questions to be considered for every complex PSSR. 

Adopting a PSSR checklist provided by an industry source, consultant, or even from another plant or corporate group within a site s own organization may seem efficient, and can be a good way to jump start the process, but it should still be subject to management, technical and EHS review against the needs of the site before it is adopted. 

Of course there are some standard items or questions that can apply to any site, but a review against unique characteristics of the site when developing the collection of PSSR review items is a good practice. Review the example PSSR checklists in Appendix A. Are there differences Are there similarities Analyze the items in the examples for clues to the type of processes or materials present at the example checklists site. Each represents a different approach to building a customized database of questions. None of the examples are intended to guarantee... 

Whether an electronic or a hardcopy PSSR checklist approach is used at a site, each applicable item for a complex PSSR in progress can be entered into the action item tracking system and the following attributes can be addressed ... 

The most basic approach to an electronic PSSR checklist is to create a word processing software or spreadsheet software template form for the simple and complex checklists. If desired, the simple and complex items can be built together into one document as the instructions might be to either mark or delete all non-applicable items from the file customized for the specific PSSR trigger event. 

Many of these electronic MOC systems include PSSR as a segment of the MOC activity. In these cases, it is typical that when a PSSR is required or desired for a trigger event, a field is selected and the user is led through the work process for performing the PSSR and offered a database of PSSR checklist items to evaluate for applicability. 

By modifying the basic example PSSR checklist from Chapter 4 eis if it represented the database fields for an electronic checklist, the concept of expanding or collapsing the applicable items can be demonstrated. 

TABLE 6-1 Example of collapsing an electronic PSSR checklist... 

TABLE 6-2 Example expansion of an electronic PSSR checklist in progress... 

The PSSR checklist or electronic database may contain items that no longer apply if certain raw materials, intermediates, or end products are removed from the on site. The PSSR work process itself may change if management titles change or responsibilities are reassigned. It is not uncommon to find these issues in any PSM element after such a restructuring. 

These examples can also serve as a reference for the various types of checklist items a facility might use as example to populate their own PSSR checklists, PSSR templates, or electronic PSSR software database items. 

Instructions for using this form For each issue, complete the information below. Electronically copy the blank fields as needed for each issue identified in Attachment A -Process PSSR checklist. 

An Excel spreadsheet of basic PSSR checklist items in an expandable format... 

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