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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:

References

  1. ^ "Code of Federal Regulations, Title 29, Subtitle B, Chapter XVII, Part 1910, Subpart H § 1910.119". eCFR. 2023-06-15. Retrieved 2023-06-20.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ CCPS (2007). Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-16569-0.
  4. ^ Energy Institute (2010). High Level Framework for Process Safety Management (1st ed.). London: Energy Institute. ISBN 978 0 85293 584 2.

Further reading

Nwankwo, Chizaram D.; Theophilus, Stephen C.; Arewa, Andrew A. (May 18, 2020). "A Comparative Analysis of Process Safety Management (PSM) Systems in the Process Industry". Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries. 66. doi:10.1016/j.jlp.2020.104171.

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