WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 2016 - Agricultural retailers – and the media that cover them – may have been too hasty last month in announcing a long-term congressional reprieve from Occupational Safety and ...

OSHA has come full circle…almost. In a December, 2015 revised interim enforcement memorandum, the agency indicated it will not enforce the Process Safety Management (PSM) Standard for “highly ...

Last year, President Obama issued Executive Order 13650 which requires the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) to publish a Request for Information (“RFI”) to identify issues ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, May 11, 2016 – The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will develop regulations to update its Process Safety Management Standard but won’t exempt ag retailers from PSM ...

As a result of the Tenth Circuit’s ruling, time will tell if OSHA will seek to further expand the types of activities, vessels, and units that the agency believes are covered by the PSM standard due ...

Process Safety Management (PSM) is an OSHA standard that emphasizes the management of hazards associated with highly hazardous chemicals and establishes a comprehensive management program that ...

OSHA has announced it will host a virtual meeting in October on the Process Safety Management (PSM) standard. The standard, originally published in 1992, “requires employers to implement safety ...

OSHA’s Process Safety Management (PSM) of Highly Hazardous Chemicals regulation applies to facilities that handle a threshold quantity of specific chemicals listed in Appendix A of the standard. The ...