Effectively Manage PSM Training Using Process Safety Enterprise®

Process Safety Enterprise^® (PSE), a cloud-based platform, helps manage PSM Training, ensuring compliance with OSHA's PSM standard. This white paper details the key features of PSE, including:

• Document Control System: Easily stores and retrieves documents
• Intelligent Form Builder: Creates customizable forms
• Action Tracking System: Manages all tasks related to PSM training
• Reporting and Dashboard/KPI: Provides real-time insights into activities
• PSM Training Workflow: Guides users through determining and assigning the required initial and refresher training, tracking training to completion, and meeting all OSHA PSM requirements.

A case study highlights how PSE and an effective training program could have helped to prevent this disaster by managing and executing required PSM training.

Introduction

PSM training is crucial for effectively implementing the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) Process Safety Management (PSM) 29 CFR 1910.119 standard. The standard requires Training in many places for PSM awareness, emergency action plan awareness, operators, maintenance, welders, risk assessment leaders, auditors, employees who assist with safe evacuations, and emergency responders if the site allows this function.

Businesses often encounter challenges overseeing PSM training, as employees must be trained differently, depending on their job duties and other functions. Training must also be completed when employee job duties change within the covered process. Overlooking the required training or implementing an ineffective training program risks the safety of employees, plant assets, the community, and the environment.

An effective PSM training program should include identifying the required awareness training for all employees and specific Training for job duties that impact the covered processes. A policy or procedure should state the required passing grade for training tests and hands-on demonstrations. It should also state if a failed test can be retaken and, if so, whether it can be retaken immediately or if the trainee must wait a certain amount of time. A method for asking each trainee if the training frequency is appropriate should also be established.

Training should be tracked for all employees with the training topic, date completed, employee name, and the method for determining understanding. A document management system is needed to create and store the procedures, training materials, tests, and hands-on evaluations.

Effective training systems help companies plan, execute, and store required PSM training. This workflow can help companies comply with the PSM requirements of the 29 CFR 1910.119 standard.

We recommend a PSM Essentials eLearning course like the one offered by Process Safety Learning^® (PSL) to help you better understand the PSM standard's requirements.

For businesses serious about implementing a comprehensive PSM compliance system, ioMosaic offers the Process Safety Enterprise^® (PSE) (Figure 1). PSE is a cloud-based platform enabling easy ongoing management of process safety data, helping businesses achieve compliance, manage risk, and remain competitive. Unlike any other system available in the market today, PSE is a centralized web-based application that integrates all PSM elements and workflows, making it THE ultimate solution for managing PSM training effectively. This white paper delves into the key features of PSM training and how it benefits companies seeking to improve and elevate their training systems to manage the identified PSM hazards.