PSM Awareness or Hands-On Chemical Response Training?
This course explains the system that keeps a release from happening. The response courses train the people who go in once one has.
- Process Safety Management: Highly Hazardous Chemicals. The page you are on. The PSM framework, hazard analysis, health effects, controls and emergency planning.
- HAZWOPER 40 Hour. The full course for workers who handle hazardous substances or respond to uncontrolled releases. View the HAZWOPER 40 Hour
- OSHA Emergency Action Plans. The plan for getting everyone out, built on 29 CFR 1910.38. View the OSHA Emergency Action Plans
Everyone on a covered process needs the awareness. Only the response team needs the operations-level training.
Which Processes Does OSHA's PSM Standard Cover?
PSM is not a general chemical rule. It switches on at quantity, and the course is aimed at the people working inside those processes.
- Threshold quantities. The standard applies to processes involving a chemical at or above the threshold quantity listed in Appendix A of 29 CFR 1910.119.
- Ten thousand pounds of flammables. It also applies to a process involving a Category 1 flammable gas or a flammable liquid with a flashpoint below 100 degrees Fahrenheit, in a quantity of 10,000 pounds or more (1910.119(a)(1)(ii)).
- Not everywhere. Retail facilities, oil and gas well drilling and servicing, and normally unoccupied remote facilities are excluded (1910.119(a)(2)).
- Fourteen elements. Where it applies, the employer owes 14 elements, from employee participation in 1910.119(c) through to trade secrets in 1910.119(p).
This course is awareness level. It builds the vocabulary and the reasoning behind those elements rather than auditing a program against them.
