Process Safety Management Overview
Learning objectives
- Recognize the dangers associated with a catastrophic release of highly hazardous chemicals
- Recall the purpose of Process Safety Management
- Identify the possible causes of hazardous chemical releases
- Identify Process Safety Management Program components
Course overview
The goal of the lesson is make employees aware of the primary objective of process safety management: to prevent unwanted releases of highly hazardous chemicals into locations that expose employees and others to serious hazards, and to provide an overview of the standards and best practices necessary to achieve that objective.
- 6 minutes
- Format: Online Interactive
- English , Spanish
Course Outline
- Process Safety Management Overview
Regulations
- 29 CFR 1910. 119 - Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals
- 29 CFR 1910. 119 - Appendices A, B, C, D
- 1910.119 App A - List of Highly Hazardous Chemicals, Toxics and Reactives (Mandatory)
- 1910.119 App B - Block Flow Diagram and Simplified Process Flow Diagram (Nonmandatory)
- 1910.119 App C - Compliance Guidelines and Recommendations for Process Safety Management (Nonmandatory)
- 1910.119 App D - Sources of Further Information (Nonmandatory)
- 29 CFR 1910.120 - Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response
- 29 CFR 1910.38 - Emergency Action Plans
- 29 CFR 1910 Subpart H - Hazardous Materials
- 29 CFR 1910 Subpart I - Personal Protective Equipment
- 29 CFR 1910.146 - Permit-required Confined Spaces
- 29 CFR 1910.147 - Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout)
- 29 CFR 1910.252 - General Requirements (Hot Work) - Welding, Cutting and Brazing
- Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety Management, Center for Chemical Process Safety
- Section 304 of the Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA)
- OSHA Letters of Interpretation on the PSM standard: https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owasrch.search_form?p_doc_type=INTERPRETATIONS&p_toc_level=3&p_keyvalue=1910.119&p_status=CURRENT
- OSHA PSM "Quick Card", orders and reprints at: https://osha.gov/Publications/process-safety-card.pdf
- OSHA "Process Safety Management Guidelines for Compliance", https://osha.gov/Publications/osha3133.pdf
- ANSI, API, and NFPA
- Chemical Safety Board (CSB: incident investigations) www.csb.gov
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA: chemical reactivity and modeling software) http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/crw