Today, facilities that use, store, or manufacture extremely hazardous or toxic chemicals that exceed the regulated threshold quantity must be intimately familiar with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), two agencies with the common goal of preventing the catastrophic release of hazardous and/or toxic chemicals.
These two agencies administer separate, yet similar, programs that have a major impact on how regulated facilities conduct their day-to-day operations. OSHA administrates the Process Safety Management (PSM) program, and the USEPA administrates the Risk Management program (RMP). While the core prevention requirements of each program are essentially the same, OSHA’s PSM rule focuses on worker and workplace safety, and USEPA’s RMP rule focuses on off-site impacts.
RMT specializes in helping you to understand how these programs apply to your operations, and in providing the guidance necessary to achieve compliance. We develop individualized compliance strategies built upon current loss prevention programs. RMT can take the lead in implementing these strategies or can augment in-house engineering and manufacturing teams to minimize cost, while achieving risk management and loss prevention goals.
Our process safety and risk management services include:
- Applicability assessment
- Prevention program assessment and development
- General duty clause compliance
- Hazard assessment/Off-site consequence analysis
- Dispersion modeling
- Facility siting
- Process Hazard Analysis (PHA)
- Risk management program level determination
- Risk management plan preparation and submission
- Strategic risk communication planning
- Integrated Contingency Plan (ICP) preparation
- Refresher training