This article is in list format but may read better as prose. You can help by converting this article, if appropriate. Editing help is available. (January 2024)

Process safety management (PSM) is a practice to manage business operations critical to process safety. It can be implemented using the established OSHA scheme^[1] or others made available by the EPA,^[2] AIChE's Center for Chemical Process Safety,^[3] or the Energy Institute.^[4]

PSM schemes are organized in 'elements'. Different schemes are based on different lists of elements. This is a typical list of elements that may be reconciled with most established PSM schemes:

Commit to process safety
- Process safety culture
- Compliance with standards
- Process safety competency
- Workforce involvement
- Stakeholder outreach
Understand hazards and risks
- Process knowledge and documentation management
- Hazard identification and risk analysis
Manage risk
- Operating procedures
- Safe work practices (e.g. a permit-to-work system)
- Asset integrity management
- Contractor management
- Training and performance assurance
- Management of change
- Operational readiness
- Conduct of operations
- Emergency management
Learn from experience
- Incident investigation
- Process safety metrics and performance measurement
- Auditing
- Management review and continuous improvement

References

[edit]

^ "Code of Federal Regulations, Title 29, Subtitle B, Chapter XVII, Part 1910, Subpart H § 1910.119". eCFR. 2023-06-15. Retrieved 2023-06-20.
^ EPA (2013-10-29). "Risk Management Program (RMP) Rule Overview". www.epa.gov. Archived from the original on 2023-06-18. Retrieved 2023-06-22.
^ CCPS (2007). Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-16569-0.
^ Energy Institute (2010). High Level Framework for Process Safety Management (1st ed.). London: Energy Institute. ISBN 978-0-85293-584-2.

References

Further reading