Findings and Recommendations - DOE-HDBK-1100-20040018

DOE-HDBK-1100-2004

2.2.4 Findings and Recommendations

DOE contractors should establish a system to:

promptly address the team's findings and recommendations;

assure that recommendations are resolved in a timely manner and that resolutions

are documented;

document actions to be taken;

develop a written completion schedule for the action steps;

complete actions as soon as possible;

communicate the actions to all affected personnel.

DOE contractors must retain PrHAs and updates for each process covered by the PSM Rule,

along with documented resolutions of recommendations, for the life of the process.

2.2.5 Acceptable Methodology

The PSM Rule specifies that DOE contractors use one or more of the following methodologies,

as appropriate, to determine and evaluate the hazards of the process being analyzed:

What-If

Checklist

What-If/Checklist

Hazard and Operability Study

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis

Fault Tree Analysis

An appropriate equivalent methodology.