Prevention programs risk management plan

EPA promulgated the Accidental Release Prevention Requirements (40 CFR 68), which contain the list of regulated chemicals and requirements for facilities possessing more than a threshold quantity of a listed chemical in an individual process. Covered facilities are required to implement a risk management program and submit a risk management plan to EPA. 

Risk management plan contents executive summary registration worst-case data alternative release data five-year accident history prevention program data emergency response data certification. 

Section 112(r) of the CAA establishes a list of substances that, if present in a quantity in excess of a specific threshold, would require that the facility establish a risk management program to prevent chemical accidents, prepare a risk management plan, and submit the plan to the State and local emergency planning organizations. Carbonyl sulfide is regulated under CAA 112(r) because of its chemical property as a flammable gas. 

RMP lnfoTM - displays Risk Management Plans submitted by facilities under Section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act that include information about Risk Management Programs implemented to prevent and prepare for chemical accidents. 

The Clean Air Act is the one that covers process safety. The pertinent rule is referred to as the Risk Management Program and is administered by the Chemical Emergency Preparedness and Prevention Office (CEPPO), the EPA office that administers the Risk Management Plan (RMP). 

Three States— New Jersey, Delaware, and Nevada—have their own risk management plans, and 25 have set up their own version of the OSHA standard. (The California Risk Management and Prevention Program (RMPP) was the first major regulation of its type in the United States but it has since been incorporated into CAL OSHA s process safety standard.)... 

By way of an overview introduction, the chapter will provide an overall summary of the RMP, discuss the hazard analysis requirements to include consequence analysis, describe the prevention program requirements and the emergency response requirements, and finally discuss the risk management plan. 

On August 19,1996, ERA issued Risk Management Programs for Chemical Accidental Release Prevention, 40 CFR, Part 68. The rule required risk management plans of location managements by June 21, 1999. Although the provisions of the rule are extensive, only the specifications for hazards analyses will be addressed here. 

Risk Management Plan— A written program that is required by the Clean Air Act. It is designed to prevent accidental releases into the environment. 

Owners and operators of facilities the produce, process, and store extremely hazardous substances must develop a risk management plan (RMP) including an executive summary, registration information, off-site consequence analysis, five-year accident history, prevention program, and emergency response program. 

Under the authority of section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act, the Chemical Accident Prevention Provisions (40 CFR Part 68) require facilities that produce, handle, process, distribute, or store certain chemicals to develop a Risk Management Program, prepare a Risk Management Plan (RMP), and submit the RMP to the EPA. Covered facilities were initially required to comply with the rule in 1999. 

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