At the time of the methyl isocyanate release at Bhopal, I was working in the corporate offices of a Fortune 50 company. The stillness of the air in the headquarters offices and the questions on the ...
A robust system of process safety indicators might have revealed many of these management system deficiencies before the Deepwater Horizon disaster occurred, CSB investigators announced at a July 24 ...
Alarm systems are critical for facilitating process safety, ensuring efficient operations, and maintaining quality. Alarm management has been broadly implemented in the process industries over the ...
OSHA’s Process Safety Management (PSM) of Highly Hazardous Chemicals regulation applies to facilities that handle a threshold quantity of specific chemicals listed in Appendix A of the standard. The ...
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Three vendors – Enablon, Sphera, and VelocityEHS – lead the market for process safety management (PSM) software reflecting the highly competitive market environment. Using its ...
Violations related to OSHA's process safety management standards allegedly resulted in an ammonia release at the facility on June 30. OSHA has cited Case Farms Processing Inc., which operates Case ...
The introduction of process safety system–specific malware into the manufacturing world in 2017 intensified the discussion around the convergence of safety and cybersecurity. If a cyberattack could ...
The U.S. NTSB first recommended that Safety Management Systems (SMS) be implemented by Part 121 airlines—something the FAA now requires—in 2007, then called for the same requirement for public ...
In March 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in the closely watched Perez v. Mortgage Bankers. The Court’s decision killed a longstanding doctrine, set by the D.C. Circuit, that changes ...