ISCD Updates PSP Manual – 5-2-18

When the DHS Infrastructure Security Compliance Division updated their Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) program web site this week they included a link to a newer version of the CFATS Personnel Surety Program instruction manual on their updated Chemical Security Assessment Tool (CSAT) 2.0 page. In keeping with recent DHS practice, there is no version number on this manual, just a new date: March 27^th, 2018. The earlier version of this manual was published back in September of last year.

For one of the few times since ISCD stopped including change logs in their manuals, I have discovered one of the minor changes in wording that was part of the cause for the new dating of the manual. On page 23 in the first sentence of the discussion about ‘Corporation Group’ then new manual changes the label for the default group from “Corporation” to “Corporation (Employees Only)”. Obviously, this means that the same change is made in the Personnel Surety tool in CSAT 2.0. Apparently, the intent is to imply that only employee names will be submitted under the Corporation group, not contractors or visitors.

Again, with changes this minor one could probably forgive ISCD for not making a formal announcement about the availability of the new version of this manual. But, I am pretty sure that a facility security manager is going to want to have the most current version of the manual on hand regardless of how small the changes were.

BTW: A copy of the older version of this manual is still available for an uncertain period of time. No telling how long it will remain available, so get it while you can.