(30a) California’s 2017 Process Safety Regulations for Oil Refineries - the Future of U.S. PSM Regulations?
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
2018
2018 Spring Meeting and 14th Global Congress on Process Safety
Global Congress on Process Safety
Tutorials in Process Safety - PPSS I
Monday, April 23, 2018 - 1:30pm to 2:00pm
The new regulations introduce substantial changes to the 12 existing PSM elements and add 9 new elements that include damage mechanism reviews, hierarchy of controls analysis, safety culture assessment, employee participation authorities, root cause investigative analysis, use of PSM indicators, human factors, management of organizational change, and safeguard protection analysis. Cal/OSHA will enforce these regulations with significant increases in staff positions that include recruitment of personnel with chemical and mechanical engineering backgrounds. The PSM revisions draw from the recommendations of CCPSâs Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety (2007). The California regulations will require greater attention by refinery operators on strategies to anticipate, analyze and prevent process incidents.
Californiaâs PSM standard for oil refineries represents the latest and most sweeping regulatory reform initiated by a US government entity in response to a major process incident. These reforms are poised to reframe the national discussion on the role of public policy in preventing major chemical accidents.
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