Don’t forget about the EPA’s RMP
Dear Emily Petruzzelli, Editor-in-Chief;
I very much appreciate the May 2025 CEP article “Laws and Regulations Governing the Chemical Process Industries in the U.S.” by Manish Aggarwal (pp. 30–35). This article does a nice job addressing the complex regulatory framework covering the chemical industry.
Although the requirements of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Process Safety Management (PSM) Standard were noted, the author failed to also note the requirements under the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Risk Management Program (RMP) for the prevention of catastrophic chemical releases required by the Clean Air Act of 1990.
The RMP is complementary to OSHA’s PSM Standard but has important differences such as the use of inherently safer technologies...
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