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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

HOUSTON, June 24-- The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration sent letters to refinery managers emphasizing the need to comply with all applicable OSHA standards, particularly the process ...

PHOENIX, Ariz. – The law firm of Gallagher & Kennedy announced today that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (“D.C. Circuit”) invalidated a U.S. Occupational Safety and ...

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