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About PPA (Procedure Professionals Association)
PPA is the nuclear industry’s collective voice and leader in procedure writing and processing. The association provides consistent and benchmarked guidance to commercial nuclear facilities and the Department of Energy’s nuclear ancillaries. The mission of PPA is to function as a non-profit organization developing and exchanging technical information on the design, development, implementation, and use of procedures to increase reliability, improve performance, and ensures safe and efficient facility operation. PPA promotes excellence in procedure writing and processing through
education and information sharing.
PPA was founded in August of 2005 at the closing of the 17th Annual Procedure Symposium. The annual symposium had been sponsored and hosted by NUS/Scientech since its inception in 1988. Leaders in the procedure field proposed that an industry association would give stakeholders a strong platform from which to provide input to industry oversight groups such as the Instituted of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) and the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI).
In 2006 members of PPA were integrally involved in the development of the AP-907-001, Procedure Process and AP-907-005, Procedure Writer’s Guide, both elements of the Standard Nuclear Performance Model. The Standard Nuclear Performance Model is a comprehensive model that includes INPO, NEI and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) process descriptions and provides a consistent basis for describing how work is done at nuclear power plants for process areas.
Currently the association is engaged in developing and delivering the industry’s first procedure writing certification and standardized training program based on the job-task analysis for procedure writers. PPA members are also working on development of AP-907-006, Procedure Use and Adherence.
PPA sponsors an annual conference to provide information sharing, operating experience, lessons learned, benchmarking and networking opportunities. For the past 18 years this conference has been the premier learning opportunity for procedure writers, reviewers, approvers and program managers. PPA remains committed to continually improving this opportunity.
The Principles of Operation Document provides additional details on how PPA is organized and operated to meet these goals.
