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 ...

Washington – Thomas M. Galassi, director of OSHA’s Directorate of Enforcement Programs, on May 11 sent a memorandum to regional administrators regarding the Process Safety Management Standard’s ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) issued a January 17th news release stating that Philadelphia Energy Solutions (“PES”) has been cited for violations of safety and health ...

Washington — OSHA has updated its process safety management enforcement policy for the first time in 30 years. The agency announced the change in a directive that went into effect Jan. 26. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Breakdowns in PSM often stem from treating safety programs as compliance exercises rather than operational systems, leading to gaps in procedures, training, and controls. Incident investigations that ...

The OSHA Process Safety Management standard requires companies to prevent major releases of certain hazardous chemicals. Affected companies must comply with this complex rule by developing an in-depth ...

A recent ruling by the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission could spell trouble for manufacturers dealing in hazardous chemicals who may not be aware they are now running afoul of federal ...