For a relatively quiet 2023, 2024 is starting off with a bang. While we are keeping our eyes and ears open on these and any other relevant developments, we wanted to provide a summary of the key ...

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 ...

Facilities that potentially could release highly hazardous chemicals resulting in toxic fire or explosion hazards are the focus of a national emphasis program (NEP) developed by OSHA. The program ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...