OSHA’s Process Safety Management (PSM) of Highly Hazardous Chemicals regulation applies to facilities that handle a threshold quantity of specific chemicals listed in Appendix A of the standard. The ...

The regulatory landscape for process industries in the United States became a little more onerous earlier this year. On February 21, 2020, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) ...

Review of process safety risk assessments detects a common culprit. Downstream oil and gas firms devote considerable resources to ensure that workers at their industrial facilities apply Process ...

If you’ve ever wondered what a process safety standard drafted by a union would look like, the State of Washington’s recent draft Process Safety Requirements for Petroleum Refineries provides a ...

At the time of the methyl isocyanate release at Bhopal, I was working in the corporate offices of a Fortune 50 company. The stillness of the air in the headquarters offices and the questions on the ...

The Chemical Safety Board (CSB) released its final report into the June 13, 2013, explosion and fire at the Williams Olefins Plant in Geismar, La., which killed two employees. The report concludes ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Three vendors – Enablon, Sphera, and VelocityEHS – lead the market for process safety management (PSM) software reflecting the highly competitive market environment. Using its ...

Is it safer to work at or live near a chemical plant today than it was 20 years ago, before Bhopal? Maybe. "I can't say such an accident won't happen in the U.S., but it would be hard to occur," says ...

As a result of the Tenth Circuit’s ruling, time will tell if OSHA will seek to further expand the types of activities, vessels, and units that the agency believes are covered by the PSM standard due ...

The Joint Munitions Command is undergoing a transformation in its approach to conducting business and contributing to its modernization initiative. With the help of its safety team, JMC is in the ...

Ming Yang has lots of experience teaching people about safety from very basic concepts. When he arrived at Nazarbayev University, in Kazakhstan, in 2017, he became the first professor to teach ...

OSHA's PSM standard was issued in February 1992, while EPA's RMP rule was issued in May 1996. The goal of both rules: A comprehensive plan to manage process chemical hazards. Authors discuss the two ...