Process safety management

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

^ "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.

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