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 ...
The five pillars will support continued excellence in operations as well as provide a framework for achieving excellence in workforce safety. Most businesses face the possibility of worker accidents ...
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently made several major changes to its Process Safety Management (PSM) standard for highly hazardous chemicals, which previously had ...
On March 1, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signed its final “Accidental Release Prevention Requirements: Risk Management Programs Under the Clean Air Act; Safer Communities by ...
In 1985, under a congressional mandate (Public Law 99-145), the Army instituted a sustained program to destroy elements of the chemical munition stockpile. In 1992, Congress enacted Public Law 102-484 ...
Inherently safer industrial technologies for the production, transport, and use of industrial and agricultural chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and both commodity and advanced materials is a vital concept ...
Dr. Wayne Hartz, CSP, is the Department Chair for the Safety and Occupational Health Applied Sciences programs at Keene State College. Dr. Hartz holds the rank of full professor and has been on ...
The five pillars will support continued excellence in operations as well as provide a framework for achieving excellence in workforce safety. Most businesses face the possibility of worker accidents ...
This chapter describes recent efforts by the chemical and petroleum industries to define process safety metrics suited to the needs of their enterprises. It then discusses how such concepts can be ...