A proactive approach, coupled with properly planned and implemented safety and risk management systems can help you comply with local, state and federal PSM regulations, as well as minimize loss of life, environmental impact, equipment damage, citations and litigation.
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The chemical company of a large integrated energy company was developing a corporate standard for LOPA, which incorporated a risk ranking matrix. The company was interested in obtaining an independent review of the design of the risk matrix, and in benchmarking the underlying risk tolerability criteria with generally accepted industry norms.
A major pulp and paper manufacturing company in Mississippi determined that its process safety management (PSM) program had to do more than merely follow OSHA regulations; they wanted it to also be effective in preventing accidents.
If your facility uses, stores, manufactures, handles, or moves flammable or highly hazardous chemicals on site above the threshold quantity (TQ), OSHA does require PSM implementation. Learn the facts about process safety management.
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OSHA published the Process Safety Management (PSM) standard in 1992. At that time it was viewed as one of the first performance-based regulations in the US. Previous OSHA regulations were viewed as prescriptive or specification based where all documentation and reporting requirements are included. What made the OSHA PSM standard performance-based was the expectation that each covered facility would need to develop a PSM program and would need to then implement the elements of that program.
A book on environmental, health and safety management describes the difference between specification and performance based standards.
"A specification standard is one where there is no subjectivity. Everything one needs is clearly stated in black and white. Performance based standards, on the other hand, leave much of the decision making to the employer."
The term performance based standard is used quite often in reference to the OSHA PSM Standard, but what does it mean? The only specific use of this term is in Section III, Summary and Explanation of the Final Rule, in this comment made by the CMA (The Chemical Manufacturer's Association).
“Initially CMA would like to commend OSHA on its efforts to craft a comprehensive performance based standard addressing process safety management of highly hazardous chemicals. As CMA has commented in past rulemakings, performance language capitalizes on industry’s ingenuity and capability to effectively reduce hazards as they may be uniquely applied to a particular safety concern.”
In a paper that discusses chemical process safety management within the Department of Energy, the term is also used:
“The PSM Rule is a performance-based standard that defines the elements of an effective chemical process safety program. This encourages innovative solutions to address fundamental safety issues. It does not prescribe how each element is to be implemented 1) due to the impossibility of addressing the diversity of chemical processes that exist, and 2) the performance-based approach developed by the chemical industry had been shown to be effective."
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