...Session No. 658 Have We Really Learned From Major Accidents? Rajender Dahiya, CSP, PPSE-MIChemE Sr. Technical Services Manager Loss Control AIG American Insurance General Houston, Texas Abstract Considerable reductions in process safety incidents have not been realized over the past 40 years...

... Session No. 720 Process Safety Management Best Practice: Safe Work Permit Management System Jonathan Zimmerman, M.S., CSP, CHMM EHS Manager Kellogg s Cincinnati, Ohio Bryan Haywood, M.S. Founder and President Safteng.net Milford, Ohio Introduction Many job tasks that expose workers to serious...

...Session No. 513 OSHA Process Safety Management Understanding Requirements and Preparing for an Inspection Jedd Hill, M.S. Director, Technical Services U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration Salt Lake Technical Center Sandy, UT Introduction Through advancements...

... Session No. 720 Process Safety Management Best Practice Line Break Program Jonathan Zimmerman, M.S., CSP, CHMM EHS Manager Kellogg s Cincinnati, Ohio Bryan Haywood, M.S. Founder and President Safteng.net Milford, Ohio Introduction One of the dangerous and hazardous tasks in the realm of both...

... Introduction Chemical safety and process safety continue to garner significant media attention around the United States as chemical and process safety events continue to occur. OSHA's Process Safety Management (PSM) standard and EPA's Risk Management Program (RMP) standard provide a framework...

... of these types of incidents is driven mainly by the work environment that is allowed to exist. An insight into a company's effectiveness at managing personal safety incidents can be accomplished through reviewing their recordable injury frequency (RIF) rate. A process safety incident occurs when there is a loss...

... Introduction Chemical safety and process safety continue to garner significant media attention around the United States as chemical and process safety events continue to occur. OSHA's Process Safety Management (PSM) standard and EPA's Risk Management Program (RMP) standard provide a framework...

... of chemical facilities, with the objective of preventing injuries, minimizing property losses, and avoiding damage to the environment. "Near-Misses" as Leading Indicators for Process Safety Introduction As safety professionals, we are continually looking for indicators that can guide us in evaluating...

... Introduction Implementing an effective process safety management program on a chemical weapons demilitarization facility is challenging. Accomplishing the mission and maintaining effective risk reduction requires a strong commitment to safety, a well-written program, a dedicated and competent...

... professionals, industrial hygienists and other EHS personnel need to know and understand about PtD methods, the design/redesign process, and key elements for successful PtD implementation. risk assessment tool implementation process safety key element prevention ptd project management national ptd...

... Introduction The word "safety" is general in nature. This is used in different forms for different aspects, e.g., home safety, road safety, process safety, personal safety, and many more. However, coming to industry side and in particular to the oil & gas sector, two forms of safety...

... accident upstream oil & gas cause-consequence diagram application chemical process safety identification risk practice us government containment diagram consequence hazard identification information bowtie diagram risk assessment process safety operational safety risk management...

... Introduction The safety of highly hazardous processes has been dramatically affected by the implementation of process safety management principals. Implementation of process safety standards by OSHA and EPA, as well as preceding state standards, have helped to apply rigorous management...

... Facilities governed by the OSHA Process Safety Management Standard, 29 CFR 1910.119, are required to implement a Mechanical Integrity Program. Equipment used to process, store or handle highly hazardous chemicals covered under the standard must be designed, constructed, installed and maintained...

... on continuous quality improvement processes; both are interested in public health and pandemic planning as well as emergency management; both are interested chemical process safety management, etc. Based on the authors' recent experience in designing and implementing an outcomes-based undergraduate degree...

... of process safety) is well managed. In fact there is not necessarily any connection between good management of process safety and good management of employee safety. Further, there is not necessarily any connection between injury rates and actual exposure to serious events. Being able to address potentially...

... 304 of the CAA required the Secretary of Labor, in coordination with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to promulgate, pursuant to the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, a chemical process safety standard to prevent accidental releases of chemicals that could pose...

... Introduction On July 27, 2007, the U.S. Department of Labor, through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), issued Directive Number CPL-03-00-004, which was entitled Petroleum Refinery Process Safety Management National Emphasis Program. On August 18, 2009, OSHA issued...

... banking & finance compliance audit program Implementation right audit approach process safety HSSE audit and certification audit approach Party Audit Auditing process safety incident party auditing subject matter expertise procedure third party auditor Process Safety...

... inspections to date. Note that of the 215 Process Safety Management (PSM) citations listed in the first slide, 48 of them (22%) are either equipment deficiencies or other mechanical ntegrity issues. The second and third slides list examples of shortcomings identified in the echanical integrity area. i m...