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 Risk Management Program (RMP) regulations under Section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act (CAA) require facilities using certain toxic or ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1985, under a congressional mandate (Public Law 99-145), the Army instituted a sustained program to destroy elements of the chemical munition stockpile. In 1992, Congress enacted Public Law 102-484 ...

Proactive culture evaluation closes the gap between root causes and cultural factors to promote sustainable safety leadership ...

Inherently safer industrial technologies for the production, transport, and use of industrial and agricultural chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and both commodity and advanced materials is a vital concept ...

The five pillars will support continued excellence in operations as well as provide a framework for achieving excellence in workforce safety. Most businesses face the possibility of worker accidents ...

What is management commitment, and why is it absolutely critical to the success of any environmental health and safety program? It’s a very broad and important topic that can’t be fully addressed in ...

Alarm management is the taming of the alarm system, changing it from a mixed alarm and awareness notification system with almost random priorities to a true operator support tool that notifies ...

This chapter describes recent efforts by the chemical and petroleum industries to define process safety metrics suited to the needs of their enterprises. It then discusses how such concepts can be ...