Through the cooperative volunteer efforts of more than a hundred power system protection engineers, the PSRC assists the protective relaying industry by providing leadership in all items related to its scope. The leadership is provided through the development of technical documents as follows: 

• Standards, recommended practices or guides published through the IEEE Standards Association. These are formal documents that have been through the IEEE standards review process, and are used world wide as reference documents to standards or guide practices.
• Technical papers published through IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery or IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. These documents are retrievable from Transactions publications or through the IEEE technical publications services.
• Technical reports published through IEEE special publications IEEE conference proceedings or various regional conference proceedings or on the Committee “Publications” web page. These documents have been through the Committee or Subcommittee review process but are not part of the IEEE standards series. They provide information on various aspects of power system protection.
• In addition to the publications, the Committee also prepares and conducts industry surveys on various topics within its scope and publishes the results of such surveys.
• The Committee also prepares and presents panel sessions and tutorials at various technical conferences and PES conferences as an educational service.

To accomplish the task, the Committee is divided into several subcommittees with specific scopes. The scopes of these subcommittees can be found on the subcommittee pages accessed through links on the main page. Each Subcommittee then manages several working groups and task forces with various assignments.

 The scopes of the Main Committee and the Subcommittees and the assignments of the various task forces as well as the membership lists are published in the PSRC Directory each year. The Directory can be retrieved directly from the Website. Many working group and task force assignments are also updated and amplified on the individual web pages associated with those groups.

 The Committee, the Subcommittees and most of the working groups and task forces meet three times per year in various locations in North America. At these meetings the assignments are pursued, and new working groups are formed and ones that have completed their assignments are disbanded. The results of working group efforts are often given in presentations at these meetings.