Process Safety Management Regulation

Unless some discipline is imposed, engineering personnel, especially where contractors are involved, will define far more alarms than plant operations require. This situation may be addressed by simply setting the alarm hmits to values such that the alarms never occur. However, changes in alarms and alarm hmits are changes from the perspec tive of the Process Safety Management regulations. It is prudent to impose the necessary discipline to avoid an excessive number of alarms. Potential guidelines are as follows ... 

These five requirements are all part of the OSHA Process Safety Management regulation discussed in chapter 3. 

It is obvious that a good PSM Program could have reduced the probability and consequences of this tragedy. Today a U.S. company covered by the Process Safety Management regulation would be asked ... 

The purpose of this chapter is to raise awareness. Details to consider for a Management of Change Program suitable to satisfy OSHA s Process Safety Management regulation will follow in Chapter 11. 

Where are the process safety management regulations in Canada derived from ... 

OSHA process safety management regulations require process hazard analysis. 

This guideline assumes the reader is already familiar with the fourteen basic elements of process safety as defined in the OSHA process safety management regulation and the EPA risk management program rule. These are ... 

API developed its RP 750 PSM guide and OSHA used this and the CCPS Guide as a basis for the OSHA 1910 Process Safety Management Regulations (1992). These were performance based and focused on worker safety. 

Find the Process Safety Management regulation in the Code of Federal Regulations (29CFR1900.119), and write a two-page synopsis of it. 

Overall, then, the only additional RMP requirement for plants already covered by the OSHA process safety management regulation is the hazard assessment (including offsite consequence analyses of worst-case and non-worst-case accidental release scenarios). This hazard assessment must not be confused with the process hazard analysis (PHA). The hazard assessment is a study of what will happen in the event of an accidental release and usually includes, for exanple, air dispersion simulations. The PHA (e.g., HAZOP) studies the hazards present in the process and seeks to minimize them through redesign or modifications to operating procedures. 

The OSHA process safety management regulation requires that the actions assigned be taken in a timely manner and that all process hazard analyses be updated at least every five years. 

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