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OSHA Updates Its Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals Instruction

On January 26, 2024, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued its updated Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals Instruction, providing enforcement guidance ...
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EPA Releases Risk Management Program Final Rule

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 ...
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Assessment of Approaches for Using Process Safety Metrics at the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants

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 ...
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Assessment of Approaches for Using Process Safety Metrics at the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants

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 ...