In latter years, regulators have ta...

In latter years, regulators have taken a piercing interest in the safe operation of companies or facilities that make or use hazardous chemicals.

This interest came about as the end of a number of serious accidents at chemical plants in the United States and foreign countries, individual of the most infamous incidents being the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal, India.

With the passage of the Clean Air Act Amendments in 1990 the two the Occupational Safety and Hazard Administration (OSHA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were given the mandate of creating additional regulations for facilities possessing or using shrouded chemicals.

OSHA, reacting to its mandate to shelter workers, acted on these initiatives and carriageed in-depth inspections of a number of chemical plants. forward the basis of these analyses, OSHA conclud a regulatory standard was required. The Proces Safety Management (PSM) of Highly Hazardous Chemicals went into purport in May 1992. ...