Acronyms and Abbreviations used in HSE - P

Acronym: Description
P & I: Piping and Instrumentation (diagram)
P & T: Professional and Technology Category
Pa: Pascal (S.I. unit of pressure)
PA: Planning authority
PA: Put away (on registered files)
PABIAC *: Paper and Board Industry Advisory Committee
PACA: Preventing Accidents to Children in Agriculture
PAG *: Programme Action Group (of Securing Health Together)
PAH: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
PAIT: Post-Acceptance Inspection Topic
PANs: Personnel Advice Notes
PASC: Pacific Area Standards Congress
PAT: Proficiency Analytical Testing
PATRAM: Packaging and Transport of Radioactive Materials
PBB: Polybrominated biphenyl
PBN: Permanent Background Notices
PBZ: Personal breathing zone
PC: Personal computer
P(C)A: Petroleum (Consolidation) Act 1928
PCA: Public Contractors Association
PCAH: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
PCAW: Public Concern at Work
PCB: Polychlorinated biphenyl
PCBP's: Polychlorinated biphenylenes
PCIAOH: Permanent Commission and International Association on Occupational Health
PCM: Phase contrast microscopy
PCM: Plutonium contaminated material
PCS: Public and Commercial Services Union
PCSPS: Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme
PCSR: Pre-construction safety report
Pct: Polychlorinated Triphenyls
PD: Promotion dossier
PDO: Personal Development Objectives
PDS: Professional Development Scheme
PE: Photo-electric
PEC: Packaging of Explosives for Carriage Regulations
PEFD *: Planning Efficiency and Finance Division
PEGS: Pesticide Exposure Group of Sufferers
PEL: Permissible Exposure Limit (U.S. Dept. of Labour)
PER: Professional and Executive Recruitment
PERU: Pay and Employee Relations Unit
PES: Programmable electronic systems
PES: Public expenditure survey
PF: Personal file
PF: Procurator Fiscal
PFA: Pulverised fuel ash
PFD: Primary flash distillate
PFEER: Prevention of Fire Explosion and Emergency Response Regulations
PFP: Process fire precautions
PGI: Protected geographical indication
PGR: Road Transport (Carriage of Dangerous Goods in Packages etc) Regulations
PH: Property holdings
PH: Public Health
PHELA: Pesticides HSE/LA Enforcement Liaison Committee
PHO: Public Health Officer
PHIPCO: Public Health and Industrial Pesticides Council
PHSA: Planning (Hazardous Substances) Act 1990
PI *: Principal Inspector
PIA: Professional Investment Authority
PIAC *: Printing Industry Advisory Committee
PIACT: International Programme for the Improvement of Working Conditions and Environment (ILO)
PIAP: Pesticides Incidents Appraisal Panel
PICOP: Person in Charge of Possession (trains)
PICOW: Person in Charge of Works (Railways)
PID: Project iInitiation document
PIHS: Preliminary industrial hygiene survey
PII: Professional indemnity insurance
PILON: Payments in lieu of notice
PIN: Publication Information Notice
PIO: Principal Inspecting Officers (of Railways)
PIPI: Pipelines Inspectorate
PIRER: Public Information for Radiation Emergencies Regulations
PISC: Programme for the Inspection of Steel Components
PIZ: Public Information Zone
PLACO: Planning Committee (ISO)
PLC: Public Level Crossing
PLC: Programmable logic circuits
PLC: Programmable logic controller
PLTB: Programmed learning text book
PM: Permanent Manuals
PMA: Paintmakers Association (of Great Britain)
PMDA: Plastics Machinery Distributors' Association
PMF: Progressive massive fibrosis
PMR: Proportional mortality ratios
PMS: Paint mixing system(s)
PN: Prohibition notice
PO: Private Office
POCO: Post Operational Cleanout (Nuclear)
POHL: Principal Officer Health Liaison
POMSTER: Placing on the Market and Supervision of Transfers of Explosives Regulations
POOSH: Professional Organisations in Occupational Health and Safety
POPMAR: Policy, organising, planning and implementing, measuring, auditing and reviewing
POPUMET: Protection of Persons undergoing Medical Examinations or Treatment
PORV: Power-operated relief valve
POSH: Policies for Strategy on Health
POSR: Pre-operation Safety Review
PoW: Plan of Work
PP Regs: Power Presses Regulations
PPE: Personal protective equipment
PPEB: Policy Projects and Environment Branch, part of Policy Unit
PPHSLC: Plastics Processing Health and Safety Liaison Committee
ppm: Parts per million
PPM: Process and production method
PPMA: Petrol Pump Manufacturers Association
PPTO: Principal Professional and Technology Officer
PQ: Parliamentary Question
PR & D: Public Research and Development
PRA: Paint Research Association
PRA: Probabilistic risk analysis
PRA: Probabilistic risk assessment
PRAM: Pipeline risk assessment method
prEN: project EN
PRI: Plastics and Rubber Institute
PRINCE: Projects Via Controlled Environment
PRISM: Personnel Record Information Systems for Management
PRS *: Pesticides Registration Section
PRS: Property Repayment Scheme
PRU: Pay Research Unit
PRV: Pressure relief valve
PS: Personal Secretary
PSA: Probabilistic safety analysis
PSA: Public Service Agreements
PSAR: Preliminary safety analsysis report
PSB: Professional Staffs Branch
PSC: Port State Control
PSDU *: Personnel Services Delivery Unit
PSGB: Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
Psaf: Particle size distribution function
psi: Pounds per square inch
PSI: Principal Specialist Inspector
PSO: Principal Scientific Officer
PSO: Professional Standards Office
PSR: Pipelines Safety Regulations
PSPS: Pesticides Safety Precautions Scheme
PSSR: Pressure Systems Safety Regulations
PST: Professional, Scientific and Technical
PSV: Planned Special Visit
PTB: Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt
PTF: Petroleum Training Federation
PTFE: Polytetrafluoroethylene
PTO: Professional and Technology Officer
PTOM: Pays et territoires d'outre-mer
PTW: Permit to work
PU *: Planning Unit, part of Resources and Planning Directorate
PU: Policy Unit
PU: Polyurethane
PU: Public utility
PUF: Polyurethane foam
PURPOSES: Purchase Management System
PUSU *: Policy Unit Support unit
PUWER: Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations
PVC: Polyvinyl chloride
PWP: Personal Work Plan
PWR: Pressurised water reactor
PWTAG: Pool Water Treatment Advisory Group