Process safety management

Short description: Business management practice

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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. ↑ "Code of Federal Regulations, Title 29, Subtitle B, Chapter XVII, Part 1910, Subpart H § 1910.119". 2023-06-15. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-29/subtitle-B/chapter-XVII/part-1910/subpart-H/section-1910.119.
2. ↑ EPA (2013-10-29). "Risk Management Program (RMP) Rule Overview". https://www.epa.gov/rmp/risk-management-program-rmp-rule-overview.
3. ↑ CCPS (2007) (in en). Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-16569-0.
4. ↑ Energy Institute (2010) (in en). High Level Framework for Process Safety Management (1st ed.). London: Energy Institute. ISBN 978 0 85293 584 2.

## 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". Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries 66. doi:10.1016/j.jlp.2020.104171. Template:Management-stub

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