7 Tips for PSM and Risk Management Program Compliance

Process Safety Management

Building up, sustaining and refining a comprehensive Process Safety Management (PSM) and Risk ManagementProcess Safety Management Program (RMP) is an overwhelming commitment. The regulations are complex and hard to get. The resources at-hand to cope with your project are constrained. Your plant could be the target of an exhausting PSM and RMP compliance review by OSHA and/or the EPA, which could investigate your facility as per their stringent review guidelines.

Some questions you should ask yourself:

  • Is your municipal plant or industrial facility prepared to meet new OSHA and EPA PSM/RMP regulations?
  • Do you comprehend OSHA’s and EPA’s requirements?
  • Do you know how OSHA/EPA are deciphering PSM/RMP requirements?
  • Are you prepared for a future audit?
  • Is your existing PSM/RMP thorough, viable and practical?

On the off chance that you replied “no” to any of these questions, you require expert guidance gave by A Guide to Compliance for Process Safety Management/Risk Management Planning (PSM/RMP)

As of late, chemical mishaps that included the discharge of lethal substances, have killed several workers and a large number of people around the world. Keeping in mind the end goal to counteract events of calamitous chemical incidence from happening again, OSHA and the USEPA have united to come-up with the OSHA Process Safety Management Standard (PSM) and the USEPA Risk Management Program (RMP).

Chemical mishaps can happen because of human error in operations and/or a glitch in the framework hardware. Other emergency circumstances that should likewise be considered and made arrangements for include fire, floods, hurricanes, seismic tremors, tornadoes, snow/ice storms, blasts, truck mischances, train crashes, plane accidents, building breakdown, riots, bomb dangers, terrorism, and sabotage.

Are you ready for any eventuality?

  • Determine the distinctions and similitudes between OSHA’s PSM and EPA’s RMP regulations
  • Survey your facility to decide your requirements
  • Plug your site-particular information into regulation formats
  • Prepare your information records for your PSM compliance bundle
  • Calculate your “worst cast” scenarios
  • Assemble a suitable PSM program in a sensible, consecutive, and logical manner
  • Supervise program implementation components with the general administration framework

For more on Process Safety Management (PSM), while keeping in mind the difference with RMP, join compliance expert Sheldon Primus, MPA, COSS, in a Live Webinar titled Process Safety Management (PSM): 7 Tips for PSM and Risk Management Program Compliance, on Thu, April 21, 2016. During this session Mr. Primus will illustrate the similarities and differences of the PSM to the RMP programs and will show you how to be compliant with both standards. This session will also provide you with the tools and tips needed to comply with both the RMP and PSM standards, and offer a practical guide to continued compliance.

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