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 ...

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 ...

Building upon the original process safety management ideas published in the early 1990s, this new framework for thinking about process safety integrates industry lessons learned over the ...

About the Author Janet Persechino is employed at Engineering Planning and Management, Inc. (EPM). She can be reached at jap@epm-inc.com, 508-532-7360, for a free chemical process safety consultation ...

Learn more about the Swiss cheese model in cultivating a safety-oriented mindset within the academic community. Risk-Based Process Safety The risk-based process safety (RBPS) management approach is ...

Held last week in Indianapolis, EHS Today 's 2014 Safety Leadership Conference featured presentations from America's Safest Companies and other safety experts who offered strategies to achieve ...

OSHA Instruction CPL 02-01-065 refers heavily to OSHA Standards 29 C.F.R. 1926.64 and 1910.109—both of which detail the process safety management of highly hazardous chemicals.

An effective process safety management program requires a systematic approach to evaluating the whole process, including the process design, technology, operational and maintenance activities and ...

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 ...