Process safety management explained

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

1. Web site: 2023-06-15 . Code of Federal Regulations, Title 29, Subtitle B, Chapter XVII, Part 1910, Subpart H § 1910.119 . 2023-06-20 . eCFR.
2. Web site: . 2013-10-29 . Risk Management Program (RMP) Rule Overview . https://web.archive.org/web/20230618013713/https://www.epa.gov/rmp/risk-management-program-rmp-rule-overview . 2023-06-18 . 2023-06-22 . www.epa.gov.
3. Book: CCPS . Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety . . 2007 . 978-0-470-16569-0 . Hoboken, N.J. . en.
4. Book: [[Energy Institute]] . High Level Framework for Process Safety Management . . 2010 . 978-0-85293-584-2 . 1st . London . en.

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 . . 66 . 10.1016/j.jlp.2020.104171. 219495043 .