Updates to OSHA's Process Safety Management Standard: An Index

In August 2022 OSHA (the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration) provided the agenda for a Stakeholder Meeting, currently scheduled for October 12, 2022. The agenda for this meeting identifies 24 areas where OSHA is considering making modifications. (The original 1992 (29 CFR 1910.119) regulation is provided here.) We are publishing posts to do with each of the 24 items. In this post we provide an index to the posts that have been written to date. We will update these posts as further information becomes available.

The proposed changes fall into two broad sections: (1) changes to the general scope of the standard, and (2) changes to “particular provisions”, i.e., the management elements. The posts are organized as follows.

Overview

• Part 1: Background

• Part 2: Stakeholder Meeting

• Part 3: Open Feedback

General Scope

• Part 4: Atmospheric Storage Tanks

• Part 5: Oil and Gas-Well Drilling

• Part 6: Oil and Gas Production Facilities

• Part 7: Reactive Chemical Hazards

• Part 8: Highly Hazardous Chemicals

• Part 9: Explosives and Blasting Agents

• Part 10: Clarifying the scope of the retail facilities exemption

• Part 11: Defining the limits of a PSM-covered process

• Part 12: Definition of RAGAGEP

• Part 13: Definition of Critical Equipment

• Part 14: Employee Participation and Stop Work Authority

• Part 15: Updates to RAGAGEP

• Part 16: Updating Collected Information

• Part 17: Formal Resolution of PHA recommendations

• Part 18: Safer Technology and Alternatives Analysis

• Part 19: Natural Disasters and Extreme Temperatures

• Part 20: Mechanical Integrity of Critical Equipment

• Part 21: Equipment Deficiencies

• Part 22: Organizational Changes

• Part 23: Root Cause Analysis

• Part 24: Local Emergency Response

• Part 25: Third-Party Compliance Audits

• Part 26: Review of PSM Management Systems

• Part 27: Written Procedures for All Elements

Basics of Process Safety

The following four posts review some of the basics of process safety management.

• Process Safety Fundamentals,

• Elements of Process Safety Management,

• Process Safety Management Definitions, and

• Management a Process Safety Program.

Comments to OSHA

This section lists the formal comments submitted to OSHA via the Regulations.gov web site.

• Integration with Climate Change initiatives from the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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