process safety management

{{Short description|Business management practice}}

{{Prose|date=January 2024}}

Process safety management (PSM) is a practice to manage business operations critical to process safety. It can be implemented using the established OSHA scheme{{Cite web |date=2023-06-15 |title=Code of Federal Regulations, Title 29, Subtitle B, Chapter XVII, Part 1910, Subpart H § 1910.119 |url=https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-29/subtitle-B/chapter-XVII/part-1910/subpart-H/section-1910.119 |access-date=2023-06-20 |website=eCFR}} or others made available by the EPA,{{Cite web |last=EPA |date=2013-10-29 |title=Risk Management Program (RMP) Rule Overview |url=https://www.epa.gov/rmp/risk-management-program-rmp-rule-overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230618013713/https://www.epa.gov/rmp/risk-management-program-rmp-rule-overview |archive-date=2023-06-18 |access-date=2023-06-22 |website=www.epa.gov}} AIChE's Center for Chemical Process Safety,{{Cite book |last=CCPS |title=Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-470-16569-0 |location=Hoboken, N.J. |language=en}} or the Energy Institute.{{Cite book |last=Energy Institute |title=High Level Framework for Process Safety Management |publisher=Energy Institute |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-85293-584-2 |edition=1st |location=London |language=en}}

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
• Operating procedures
• Safe work practices (e.g. a permit-to-work system)
• Asset integrity management
• Contractor management
• Training and performance assurance
• Management of change
• Operational readiness
• Conduct of operations
• Emergency management
• Learn from experience
• Incident investigation
• Process safety metrics and performance measurement
• Auditing
• Management review and continuous improvement