A Guide to Compliance for Process Safety Management/Risk Management Planning
A Guide to Compliance for Process Safety Management/Risk Management Planning (PSM/RMP) Frank R. Spellman,
Publisher: CRC
ISBN: 1566765331
DDC: 363
Edition: Ring-bound; 1998-06-03
Summary:
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 AuthorThis 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. Simply stated: like the standard
template, this guidebook can provide the foundation, the border, the
framework from which any covered organization's PSM and RMP effort
can be brought into proper compliance. The user simply "plugs in"
site specific information into the model presented in this guidebook.
This guidebook first shows that PSM and RMP are similar and are
interrelated in many ways and different in only a few ways. Many of
the processes listed in PSM are also listed in RMP; the additional
RMP processes are in industry sectors that have a significant
accident history Along with showing the similarities and
interrelationships between PSM and RMP, the requirements of RMP that
are in addition to those listed in PSM are discussed. This guidebook
also discusses the RMP requirement for off-site consequence analysis
and the methodology that can be utilized in performing it. If the PSM
project team follows this format, it will be able to assemble a
viable PSM program in a logical, sequential, and correct manner.
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