Framework for safety-management activity to realize OSHA/PSM
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Abstract Process Safety Management (PSM) is a management system that is focused on prevention of, preparedness for, mitigation of, response to, and restoration from catastrophic releases of chemicals or energy from a process plant. Existing PSM such as OSHA/PSM guidelines just indicate the elements, but consistency between elements is not ensured and practical level of elements is different each other. On the other hands, activity model for PSM has been developed to extract the essential activities for maintaining process safety of production plant. In this paper, a general framework of overall PSM is developed based on the activity model for PSM. Proposed framework consists of ‘PSM performance in the form of PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) cycle’ and ’Resource provision’ which can be managed in an integrated fashion. In addition, OSHA/PSM elements have been mapped to clearly specify the position of them within the proposed framework and how each PSM element should function in the PSM.
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