Process safety management (PSM) is a practice to manage business operations critical to

process safety Process safety is an interdisciplinary engineering domain focusing on the study, prevention, and management of large-scale fires, explosions and chemical accidents (such as toxic gas clouds) in process plants or other facilities dealing with haza ...

. It can be implemented using the established OSHA scheme or others made available by the EPA,

AIChE The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) is a professional organization for chemical engineers. AIChE was established in 1908 to distinguish chemical engineers as professionals independent of chemists and mechanical engineers. Curr ...

's Center for Chemical Process Safety, or the

Energy Institute The Energy Institute (EI) is a professional organization for engineers and other professionals in energy-related fields. The EI was formed in 2003 by the merger of the Institute of Petroleum (dating back to 1913) and the Institute of Energy ( ...

. 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 Safety culture is the element of organizational culture which is concerned with the maintenance of safety and compliance with safety standards. It is informed by the organization's leadership and the beliefs, perceptions and values that employ ...

** Compliance with

standards Standard may refer to: Symbols * Colours, standards and guidons, kinds of military signs * Standard (emblem), a type of a large symbol or emblem used for identification Norms, conventions or requirements * Standard (metrology), an object t ...

** 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 The Incident Command System (ICS) is a standardized approach to the command, control, and coordination of emergency response providing a common hierarchy within which responders from multiple agencies can be effective. ICS was initially develope ...

** Process safety metrics and performance measurement **

Auditing An audit is an "independent examination of financial information of any entity, whether profit oriented or not, irrespective of its size or legal form when such an examination is conducted with a view to express an opinion thereon." Auditing al ...

** Management review and

continuous improvement A continual improvement process, also often called a continuous improvement process (abbreviated as CIP or CI), is an ongoing effort to improve products, services, or processes. These efforts can seek " incremental" improvement over time or "brea ...

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