Business management practice
Process safety management (PSM) is a practice to manage business operations critical to process safety . It can be implemented using the established OSHA scheme [ 1] or others made available by the EPA ,[ 2] AIChE 's Center for Chemical Process Safety ,[ 3] or the Energy Institute .[ 4]
PSM schemes are organized in 'elements'. Different schemes are based on different lists of elements. This is a typical list of elements that may be reconciled with most established PSM schemes:
Commit to process safety
Process safety culture
Compliance with standards
Process safety competency
Workforce involvement
Stakeholder outreach
Understand hazards and risks
Process knowledge and documentation management
Hazard identification and risk analysis
Manage risk
Learn from experience
References
Further reading
Nwankwo, Chizaram D.; Theophilus, Stephen C.; Arewa, Andrew A. (May 18, 2020). "A Comparative Analysis of Process Safety Management (PSM) Systems in the Process Industry" (PDF) . Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries . 66 . doi :10.1016/j.jlp.2020.104171 . S2CID 219495043 .