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ABS Consulting Vice President Steve Arendt Recommends a Risk Based Approach for Process Safety Management Excellence to Senate Committee
Houston, TX – During testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, Steve Arendt, Vice President, Organizational Performance and Assurance, ABS Consulting, recommended that any future process safety regulation should incorporate a risk based approach to process safety management (PSM). In the hearing entitled 'Lessons Learned from the Chemical Safety Board (CSB) ...
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ECHA publishes concise guidance on chemical safety assessment
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has announced the availability of its Guidance in a Nutshell: Chemical Safety Assessment, which is intended to assist industry in understanding the general provisions for conducting a Chemical Safety Assessment (CSA). ECHA states that the Guidance is aimed at non-experts who would like to understand the legal requirements under the Registration, Evaluation, ...
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EPA to seek employee participation in chemical safety inspections (HQ)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released interim guidance that would provide greater transparency in the agency’s chemical safety inspections process. Under the interim guidance, EPA inspectors will offer employees and employee representatives the opportunity to participate in chemical safety inspections. In addition, EPA will request that state and local agencies adopt ...
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How Kinetics Studies Provide Insight into Product Behavior and Create Safer Chemical Processes
Kinetics studies how temperature, catalysts, and other factors affect reaction mechanisms and rates. In a free webinar from METTLER TOLEDO, learn how this method yields critical information about a product’s stability and reaction mechanism and discover how it helps with chemical process safety and optimization. METTLER TOLEDO is please to present “Kinetics in Thermal Analysis” ...
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Senate and house TSCA reform legislation released today
Today Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) released the text of the Safe Chemicals Act of 2010, which is intended to address the “core failings” of TSCA. Representatives Bobby Rush (D-IL) and Henry Waxman (D-CA) released a discussion draft of their legislation, the Toxics Chemicals Safety Act of 2010, and announced an aggressive schedule that seeks to complete action by “mid-summer.” Lautenberg’s ...
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Hazards conference celebrates 20th anniversary - IChemE
One of Process Safety’s leading international conferences celebrates its twentieth anniversary next year, by staging its biggest event yet. Hazards XX takes place at the University of Manchester, UK on 14-17 April 2008 and the symposium, first staged in 1960, includes speakers from throughout Europe, China, Australia, USA and Saudi Arabia. Organised by the Institution of Chemical ...
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EPA Seeks Comments on Potential Revisions to its Risk Management Program
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a Request for Information (RFI) to seek comment on potential revisions to its Risk Management Program (RMP) regulations and related programs to modernize its regulations as required under Executive Order (EO) 13650: Improving Chemical Facility Safety and Security. “Chemical safety and security are a shared commitment among ...
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X-tremely safe - Process safety: Metering pump gamma/ X sets new standards
The gamma/ X is the first metering pump in its class to be driven by a cleverly controlled solenoid and offers so much more than excellent accuracy and efficiency: it also provides outstanding process safety thanks to the automatic monitoring of hydraulic conditions and pressure control without the need for a sensor. Its innovative control technology gives the new pump an important advantage ...
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Chemical Facility Safety and Security Working Group Issues Report Summarizing Progress on Improving Chemical Facility Safety and Security
In April 2013, an explosion destroyed a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, killing 15. In response to this and other recent catastrophic and fatal incidents at chemical facilities, President Obama on August 1, 2013, issued Executive Order (EO) 13650 -- Improving Chemical Facility Safety and Security. The purpose of the EO is to enhance the safety and security of chemical facilities and reduce risks ...
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Chemical Facility Safety and Security Working Group Issues Report Summarizing Progress on Improving Chemical Facility Safety and Security
In April 2013, an explosion destroyed a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, killing 15. In response to this and other recent catastrophic and fatal incidents at chemical facilities, President Obama on August 1, 2013, issued Executive Order (EO) 13650 -- Improving Chemical Facility Safety and Security. The purpose of the EO is to enhance the safety and security of chemical facilities and reduce risks ...
By Acta Group
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SC Johnson testifies before senate, calls for TSCA modernization
Kelly M. Semrau, Senior Vice President - Global Corporate Affairs, Communication and Sustainability for SC Johnson, testified today on behalf of the company before the Senate Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics and Environmental Health of the Committee on Environment and Public Works on the need to modernize the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). "There is a clear consumer and business case for ...
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EPA announces work plan chemicals for assessment during 2013 and 2014
Exactly three months from the date the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT) announced its Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Work Plan initiative, EPA on June 1 announced an additional 18 chemicals scheduled for assessment during 2013 and 2014. EPA states that it selected the chemicals for a variety of reasons, similar to those it used to ...
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EPA announces work plan chemicals for assessment during 2013 and 2014
Exactly three months from the date the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT) announced its Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Work Plan initiative, EPA on June 1 announced an additional 18 chemicals scheduled for assessment during 2013 and 2014. EPA states that it selected the chemicals for a variety of reasons, similar to those it used to ...
By Acta Group
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House committee holds hearing on the chemical facility antiterrorism act of 2009
The U.S. House of Representatives Homeland SecurityCommittee held a hearing entitled “The Chemical Facility Antiterrorism Act of 2009.” Theproposed legislation would establish permanent regulations for chemical facilities, impose newrequirements on those facilities, and regulate wastewater treatment plants. Witnesses gavetestimony from two panels, one made up of federal officials and the other ...
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OSHA releases three new Process Safety Management (PSM) publications
OSHA has released three guidance documents to help employers comply with the agency’s Process Safety Management (PSM) standard, (29 CFR 1910.119), which contains requirements for the management of hazards associated with processes using highly hazardous chemicals. “Unexpected releases of toxic, reactive, or flammable liquids and gases in processes involving highly hazardous ...
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New Safety Standards to Protect Communities in Puerto Rico and Nationwide from Chemical Accidents
Earlier this month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced finalized amendments to the Risk Management Program (RMP) to further protect communities from chemical accidents, especially those located near facilities in industry sectors with high accident rates. The Safer Communities by Chemical Accident Prevention Rule includes EPA’s most protective safety provisions for ...
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Verisk 3E unlocks world’s most comprehensive and up-to-date database of safety data sheets
Verisk 3E, the leading global provider of intelligent compliance solutions, today unveiled a new tool providing streamlined access to its industry leading database of more than seven million Safety Data Sheets (SDSs). 3E SDS™ from Verisk 3E empowers businesses of all sizes with on-demand access to SDSs, enabling optimized hazard communication processes, improved workplace safety, and ...
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Hazardous chemical storage buildings deliver effective inventory management solutions for meeting corporate sustainability efforts.
“Corporate challenges for meeting environmental sustainability can be met, even when a company processes, handles or manages hazardous chemicals,” notes Dean Alcott, SAFETY STORAGE’s National Sales Manager. A thorough understanding of the Federal, State and Local code requirements, chemicals in use, and job functions that require access to the building forms the cornerstone of ...
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Safety net for hazardous chemicals strengthened as the scope of the UNECE Industrial Accidents Convention widens
Safety at industrial facilities across 40 countries in Europe will be enhanced with the inclusion of 13 additional categories of hazardous substances and 32 more chemicals with serious health and environmental effects within the scope of the UNECE Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents (Industrial Accidents Convention). This will start on 19 December 2015 with the entry ...
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EPA honors 2012 presidential green chemistry challenge award winners
“EPA congratulates the 2012 winners for designing, developing, and implementing these innovative green chemistry technologies that will help create more sustainable industries and greener, safer products to protect people’s health and the environment,” said Jim Jones, EPA’s acting assistant administrator for the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention. ...
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