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 ...

The Chemical Safety Board (CSB) released its final report into the June 13, 2013, explosion and fire at the Williams Olefins Plant in Geismar, La., which killed two employees. The report concludes ...

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 (CSB) ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Three vendors – Enablon, Sphera, and VelocityEHS – lead the market for process safety management (PSM) software reflecting the highly competitive market environment. Using its ...

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 ...

Alarm systems are critical for facilitating process safety, ensuring efficient operations, and maintaining quality. Alarm management has been broadly implemented in the process industries over the ...

OSHA's PSM standard was issued in February 1992, while EPA's RMP rule was issued in May 1996. The goal of both rules: A comprehensive plan to manage process chemical hazards. Authors discuss the two ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued yesterday an enforcement memo (Memo) and an interim policy (Policy) on the PSM retail exemption. While OSHA in its PSM rule had not defined the ...

ISA defines an alarm as an audible or visible means of indicating to the operator an equipment malfunction, process deviation, or abnormal condition requiring a timely response. A safety alarm is ...