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 ...

OSHA’s Process Safety Management (PSM) of Highly Hazardous Chemicals regulation applies to facilities that handle a threshold quantity of specific chemicals listed in Appendix A of the standard. The ...

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 ...

(WAFB) - The US Chemical Safety Board released its final report Wednesday into a deadly Louisiana plant explosion. "The CSB report on the Williams explosion confirms what we already know -- that ...

The Chemical Safety Board (CSB) released its final report into the June 13, 2013, explosion and fire at the Williams Olefins Plant in Geismar, La., which killed two employees. The report concludes ...

Process safety is about understanding hazards and risk, managing risk by providing the appropriate layers of protection to reduce the frequency and severity of incidents, and learning from incidents ...

The emergency regulations announced Oct. 11 would implement a methodology for collecting an annual assessment to fund the state plan's Process Safety Management Program. Cal/OSHA, the California ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/d190fd/guidelines_for_aud) has announced the addition of John Wiley and ...

Is it safer to work at or live near a chemical plant today than it was 20 years ago, before Bhopal? Maybe. "I can't say such an accident won't happen in the U.S., but it would be hard to occur," says ...