The news reports were chilling. Some 200,000 people were injured with more than 2,500 fatalities from the methyl isocyanate release at Bhopal. Could it happen at your company? At the time of the ...

Process safety management is, itself, a process. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) continually updates its guidance regarding safety programs, often in response to ...

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 ...

On January 26, 2024, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued its updated Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals Instruction, providing enforcement guidance ...

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 ...

Designing a mechanical integrity program using existing best practices can help pharmaceutical manufacturers comply with OSHA’s standard for process safety management. In addition to regulation by FDA ...

The Voluntary Protection Programs Participants' Association (VPPPA) is set to host its 2024 Process Safety Management (PSM) Summit on April 10 and 11, 2024. According to the event’s website, the ...

Spurred by the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in April 2010, the Department of Interior's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement adopted and revised the Safety and Environmental Management ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) issued a January 17th news release stating that Philadelphia Energy Solutions (“PES”) has been cited for violations of safety and health ...

Alarm management is the taming of the alarm system, changing it from a mixed alarm and awareness notification system with almost random priorities to a true operator support tool that notifies ...