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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Washington — OSHA should develop guidance on the process hazard analysis element of its standard on process safety management of highly hazardous chemicals (1910.119), the Chemical Safety Board ...

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 ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has long been the regulatory backbone for workplace safety in the United States, setting and enforcing standards to protect employees from ...