The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration began mandating in 1992 that facilities with a dangerous amount of highly hazardous chemicals maintain procedures to ensure safety in their operations. The regulation outlines 14 key elements that aid employers in their efforts to prevent or mitigate episodic chemical releases that could lead to a catastrophe in the workplace and possibly to the surrounding community.
Impact
To control these types of hazards, employers need to develop the necessary expertise, experiences, judgment and proactive initiative within their workforce to properly implement and maintain an effective process safety management program as envisioned in the OSHA standard.
This OSHA standard is required by the Clean Air Act Amendments as is the Environmental Protection Agency's Risk Management Plan. Employers, who merge the two sets of requirements into their process safety management program, will better assure full compliance with each as well as enhancing their relationship with the local community.
Challenge
An effective process safety management program requires a systematic approach to evaluating the whole process. Process safety management is the proactive identification, evaluation and prevention of chemical releases that could occur as a result of failures in process, procedures or equipment.
It is easy to become overwhelmed with information while completing all the stages of OSHA 1910.119 and to find more problems than solutions. Without a mechanism to link information from each requirement it becomes extremely difficult to manage all the information and ensure that each element is followed as required.
The Dyadem Solution
Consider that each PSM element is the spoke of a wheel, and that the purpose of the wheel is to prevent catastrophic events. Each spoke must remain healthy and must be connected to the wheel in order for the wheel to accomplish its purpose effectively. Limited communication can limit success.
Dyadem provides the foundation for that wheel and the integration framework to link information from one step to the next. Dyadem’s Operational Risk Management platform not only simplifies your PSM practices with configurable workflows but also organizes all of your data – whether a dynamic PHA, Management of Change request, static document, multimedia file or photo. Sharing information between the various groups that are responsible for PSM allows you to work on multiple parts of compliance simultaneously, and mitigates risks and addresses OSHA 1910.119 more efficiently. As both resources and regulatory pressures continue to grow tighter, you simply can't afford to waste time or money as you work to keep your overall risks tolerable.
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