On October 27, 2020, the Tenth Circuit upheld a series of OSHA citations that were issued to an oil refining company following a fatal boiler explosion. In doing so, the Tenth Circuit upheld OSHA ...
As a result of the Tenth Circuit’s ruling, time will tell if OSHA will seek to further expand the types of activities, vessels, and units that the agency believes are covered by the PSM standard due ...
PHOENIX, Ariz. – The law firm of Gallagher & Kennedy announced today that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (“D.C. Circuit”) invalidated a U.S. Occupational Safety and ...
A second Trump administration has, unsurprisingly, brought with it some changes in the process safety landscape. Controversial EPA regulations have been rolled back and OSHA’s long anticipated updates ...
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently made several major changes to its Process Safety Management (PSM) standard for highly hazardous chemicals, which previously had ...
Oil and natural gas drilling, servicing and production are exempt from OSHA’s “Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals” regulations. The PSM standard exists to prevent or minimize “the ...
OSHA has announced it will host a virtual meeting in October on the Process Safety Management (PSM) standard. The standard, originally published in 1992, “requires employers to implement safety ...