A Guide to Compliance for Process Safety Management/Risk Management Planning (PSM/RMP)

Establishing, maintaining and refining a comprehensive Process Safety Management (PSM) and Risk Management Program (RMP) is a daunting task. The regulations are complicated and difficult to understand. The resources available to manage your program are limited. Your plant could be the target of a grueling PSM and RMP compliance audit by OSHA and/or the EPA, which could scrutinize your facility according to their stringent audit guidelines.

Ask yourself some questions.

* Is your municipal plant or industrial facility ready to meet new OSHA and EPA PSM/RMP regulations?
* Do you understand OSHA's and EPA's requirements?
* Do you know how OSHA/EPA are interpreting PSM/RMP requirements?
* Are you prepared for a possible audit?
* Is your existing PSM/RMP comprehensive, maintainable and cost-effective?

If you answered "no" to any of these, you need the expert guidance provided by A Guide to Compliance for Process Safety Management/Risk Management Planning (PSM/RMP)

In recent years, chemical accidents that involved the release of toxic substances have claimed the lives of hundreds of employees and thousands of others worldwide. In order to prevent repeat occurrences of catastrophic chemical incidents, OSHA and the USEPA have joined forces to bring about the OSHA Process Safety Management Standard (PSM) and the USEPA Risk Management Program (RMP).

Chemical disaster situations can occur due to human error in system operation and/or a malfunction in system equipment. Other emergency situations that must also be considered and planned for include fire, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, snow/ice storms, avalanches, explosions, truck accidents, train derailments, airplane crashes, building collapses, riots, bomb threats, terrorism, and sabotage.

Be prepared!

* Determine the differences and similarities between OSHA's PSM and EPA's RMP regulations
* Survey your facility to determine your needs
* Plug your site-specific data into regulation templates
* Prepare your data records for your PSM compliance package
* Calculate your "Worst Case" scenarios
* Assemble a viable PSM program in a logical, sequential, and correct manner
* Supervise program implementation elements with the overall management system

This user friendly, plain English, straightforward guide to new EPA and OSHA regulations describes, explains and demonstrates a tested, proven, workable methodology for installation of complete, correct safety and risk programs. It provides the public administrator, plant manager, plant engineer, and organization safety professionals with the tool needed to ensure full compliance with the requirements of both regulations. Those with interests in HazMat response and mitigation procedures will also find it of use.

This guidebook is designed to be applicable to the needs of most operations involved in the production, use, transfer, storage, and processing of hazardous materials. It addresses Process Safety Management and Risk Management Planning for facilities handling hazardous materials, and describes the activities and approach to use within U.S. plants and companies of all sizes.

From the Author

This guidebook is designed to enable the water, wastewater, and general industry person who has been assigned the task of complying with these new rules to accomplish this compliance effort in the easiest most accurate manner possible. A Guide to Compliance for Process Safety Management/Risk Management Planning (PSM/RMP) is user-friendly. This How-To-Do-It guide will assist those who are called upon to design, develop, and install PSM and RMP systems within their companies or plants. It describes, explains, and demonstrates a proven methodology: an example that actually works and has been tested.

More than anything else, this guidebook really is a "Template." It provides a pattern that can be used to devise a compliance package that is accurate.

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