The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently made several major changes to its Process Safety Management (PSM) standard for highly hazardous chemicals, which previously had ...

Proposed modifications could mean that many new sites will be covered and will need to formally adopt PSM as defined in the OSHA regulation. Process safety excellence still eludes most process ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 2016 - Agricultural retailers – and the media that cover them – may have been too hasty last month in announcing a long-term congressional reprieve from Occupational Safety and ...

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 ...

Process Safety Management (PSM) is an OSHA standard that emphasizes the management of hazards associated with highly hazardous chemicals and establishes a comprehensive management program that ...

Last year, President Obama issued Executive Order 13650 which requires the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) to publish a Request for Information (“RFI”) to identify issues ...

OSHA has come full circle…almost. In a December, 2015 revised interim enforcement memorandum, the agency indicated it will not enforce the Process Safety Management (PSM) Standard for “highly ...

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Tracing audit findings back to the management system that allowed the failure to occur is an effective way to uncover deficiencies in an organization's process safety management system. Follow the ...

Process safety excellence still eludes most process manufacturers. It can be defined as having employees who all are genuinely proficient and competent in their requisite technical disciplines and ...