HazardOps Safety – Free HAZOP Action Close-Out Checklist

A free practical checklist to help review, evidence and close HAZOP actions properly.

Price: Free

Product Description

The HazardOps Safety HAZOP Action Close-Out Checklist is a free process safety support template designed to help engineers, SHE teams and action owners review HAZOP actions before accepting them as complete or closed.

HAZOP actions should not be closed simply because someone says they are “done”. A good close-out should show what was required, what was completed, where the evidence is, and why the action can now be considered closed.

This checklist provides a simple structure for reviewing HAZOP action completion, checking evidence quality, and recording the final review decision.

What’s Included

This free download includes:

• HAZOP Action Close-Out Checklist
• Evidence quality prompts
• Examples of good close-out evidence
• Examples of weak close-out evidence
• Review decision section
• Space for action ID, owner, reviewer, decision and final closure date
• PDF format ready to use or adapt

Who This Is For

This checklist is suitable for:

• Process Safety Engineers
• HAZOP action owners
• HAZOP scribes and facilitators
• SHE / HSE professionals
• Process Engineers
• Chemical Engineers
• MOC coordinators
• Graduate engineers
• Consultants
• Small process safety teams

What This Checklist Helps With

This checklist can help you:

• Review whether a HAZOP action has been properly completed
• Check whether evidence actually addresses the original action
• Avoid closing actions based only on verbal confirmation
• Improve consistency of action close-out reviews
• Record reviewer decisions clearly
• Identify where further evidence or rework is needed
• Support better process safety governance and action tracking

Examples of Good Evidence

The checklist prompts users to look for evidence such as:

• Updated P&IDs, drawings or procedures
• Work order references
• Photos of completed physical changes
• Training or briefing records
• Engineering calculations or design notes
• Inspection or calibration records
• Meeting minutes or technical review notes

Why Download This?

Many process safety actions stay open for too long, while others are closed without enough evidence. This checklist gives you a simple and practical way to improve HAZOP action close-out quality.

It is designed to be quick to use, easy to understand, and suitable as a starting point for internal action review discussions.

Related Product

This free checklist is also included inside the full:

HazardOps Safety Process Safety Engineer Starter Toolkit

The full toolkit includes Excel, Word and PDF templates for:

• HAZOP Action Tracking
• Management of Change Tracking
• RCA / Incident Investigation
• Process Safety Performance Indicators
• Barrier Registers
• LOPA Worksheets
• Email and Meeting Templates

Important Disclaimer

This checklist is provided for educational, organisational and internal support purposes only.

It does not replace competent professional judgement, company procedures, legal compliance checks, formal HAZOP facilitation, Management of Change requirements, safety case requirements, process safety assessments, regulatory requirements or any other formal safety-critical process.

The checklist must be reviewed and adapted by a competent person before being used in any safety-critical, regulated, operational or high-hazard environment.

HazardOps Safety does not accept responsibility for how the checklist is applied, modified or relied upon by users or organisations.

Download

Add this free checklist to your process safety toolkit and use it as a simple starting point for improving HAZOP action close-out quality.