Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous and Explosive Chemicals

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Overview

Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous and Explosive Chemicals

Course Description

Many small and large businesses currently do not have the knowledge base necessary to create and implement an effective Process Safety Management (PSM) program. Unfortunately, this could lead to PSM-related accidents. In this course, you will gain an understanding of PSM and its history, who is covered by such a program, the PSM team process, the elements of a properly designed program, how to begin the process, and the basics of how PSM and the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Risk Management Plans (RMP) work together. This course is a team-based case study course where learners gain insights from real life cases.

Course Content

APPLICATION AND EXCLUSIONS

  • Threshold quantities
  • Flammables and explosives
  • 1% letter
  • Meer decision
  • Boundary

HAZARDS OF THE PROCESS AND TOXICITY

  • Process Safety Information (PSI)
  • Physical data
  • Reactivity hazards

TECHNOLOGY OF THE PROCESS

  • Operating envelope
  • Block flow diagram
  • Equipment in the process
  • Recognized And Generally Accepted Good Engineering Practices (RAGAGEP) letter

MECHANICAL INTEGRITY, INSPECTION AND TESTING, AND QUALITY ASSURANCE

  • Requirements
  • Design codes
  • Deficiency management
  • Quality assurance

PROCESS HAZARD ANALYSIS (PHA)

  • Hazard versus risk
  • Facility siting
  • Human factors
  • Methodologies
  • Recommendations

MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE

  • Application
  • Replacement in kind

OPERATING PROCEDURES

  • Requirements
  • Training

SAFE WORK PRACTICES

  • Security
  • Permit confined space entry, line opening, and hot work
  • Pre-Startup Safety Review (PSSR)

TRAINING

  • Compliance directive
  • How we train adults

CONTRACTOR MANAGEMENT AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS

  • Contractor evaluation
  • Emergency planning and response

INCIDENT INVESTIGATION, COMPLIANCE AUDITS, AND TRADE SECRETS

  • Requirements and documentation
  • OSHA inspection
  • Trade secrets in PSM

EPA RISK MANAGEMENT PLANS

  • Requirements versus PSM
  • Program levels

Session Details

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for general industry workers who must create or participate in an effective Process Safety Management program.

OSHA professionals working on jobsite

What You Will Learn

  • Application and exclusions
  • Hazards of the process and toxicity
  • Technology of the process
  • Required equipment
  • Mechanical integrity, inspection and testing, and quality assurance
  • Process hazard analysis
  • Management of change
  • Operating procedures
  • Safe work practices
  • Contractor management and emergency preparedness
  • Incident investigation, compliance audits, and trade secrets
  • EPA Risk Management Plans
Occupational safety and health professionals collaborating on job site

How You Will Benefit

  • Learn why PSM is important.
  • Understand why, even with PSM, catastrophes are still occurring.
  • Know who is covered and what exemptions exist.
  • Use the team process to develop a PSM program.
  • Learn each element of a properly designed and implemented program, and how to design a PSM program through a course case study.
  • Understand how PSM and RMP work together to protect the workforce and surrounding community.
  • Know the elements of an RMP, and how to develop and submit it to the EPA.
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The solid OSHA curriculum, fueled with hands-on training, and a strong professional network builds you for a successful safety career.

- Rodrigues "Rocky" Smith
Safety Manager

TRAIN AT YOUR LOCATION

We enable employers to provide specialized, on-location training on their own timetables. Our world-renowned experts can create unique content that meets your employees' specific needs. We also have the ability to deliver courses via web conferencing or on-demand online videos. For 15 or more students, it is more cost-effective for us to come to you.

  • Save Money
  • Flexible Schedule
  • Group Training
  • Customize Content
  • On-Site Training
  • Earn a Certificate
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