OSHA has announced it will host a virtual meeting in October on the Process Safety Management (PSM) standard. The standard, originally published in 1992, “requires employers to implement safety ...

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 ...

The OSHA Process Safety Management standard requires companies to prevent major releases of certain hazardous chemicals. Affected companies must comply with this complex rule by developing an in-depth ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ISA-84 series of standards and technical reports provide detailed guidance for every phase of the safety instrumented system (SIS) lifecycle, to make sure systems are designed, verified and ...

When handling significant quantities of highly hazardous chemicals, common sense and the OSHA Process Safety Management standard require there must be a formal method for effectively dealing with ...

Process safety is about understanding hazards and risk, managing risk by providing the appropriate layers of protection to reduce the frequency and severity of incidents, and learning from incidents ...