Overview
Unexpected releases of highly hazardous chemicals have been reported for many years. Recent major disasters include the 1984 Bhopal, India incident (3800 deaths), a 1921 German ammonium nitrate explosion (over 400 deaths, thousands injured), a 1986 Pasadena, TX incident resulting in 23 deaths, and a 2008 incident near Savannah, GA resulted in 13 deaths. OSHA’s Process Safety Management (PSM) Standard, 29 CFR 1910.119, is intended to prevent or minimize the consequences of a catastrophic release of highly hazardous chemicals from a process. PSM Standard violations are the most common OSHA Petrochemical industry citation.
In this course, the student will review OSHA 3132, "Process Safety Management". This publication outlines the requirements in the Code of Federal Regulations (29CFR Part 1910.119) for Process Safety Management to prevent or mitigate disasters affecting workers and communities. This course is relevant to owners, engineers, managers, foreman and any other personnel working in industries that deal with highly hazardous chemicals including petrochemicals, transportation, natural gas liquids, and farm product warehousing.
The student must take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of twenty (20) questions at the end of this course to obtain PDH credits.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Why Process Safety Management (PSM) is important
- The Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) and implementation deadlines
- Operating Procedure requirements
- Employee Participation and Training requirements
- Contractor requirements
- Pre-Startup Safety Review requirement
- Mechanical Integrity requirements
- Permit system requirements
- Management of Change requirements
- Incident Investigation requirements
- Emergency Planning and Response requirement
Course
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