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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At its core business process management is the administrative activities aimed at (1) defining a process, (2) establishing responsibilities, (3) evaluating process performance and (4) identifying ...

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 ...

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 regulatory landscape for process industries in the United States became a little more onerous earlier this year. On February 21, 2020, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) ...

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