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Tag: OSHA

Process Safety Management, Webinar

Your Organization Is Talking, Is Anybody Listening?

Join this 60-minute sponsored webinar to focus on communicating the hazard—one of the Five PSM Mindsets™ and a theme which is threaded throughout all 14 of OSHA’s PSM elements. If your work groups are simply imparting information and not exchanging ideas, chances are you’re missing the mark on communication. Examine how to improve the way you and your team share critical information while improving your safety culture. Critique your current level and methods of communication and connection to other teams. Plus, find out how to generate meaningful pathways for sharing critical PSM information. Don’t miss this opportunity to move beyond simply following Key Performance Indicators, managing changes and reviewing findings from audits, PHA’s and incidents and start creating meaningful conversations and solutions.

Take a look at your agenda:

  • How the theme of “communication” is threaded throughout OSHA’s 14 PSM Elements
  • Contrast and compare various methods of sharing PSM information and ideas
  • How to differentiate between the needs of multiple audiences
  • Assessing your current level of communication

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Presenter

Scott Kindy

Scott Kindy is a Senior Process Safety Management (PSM) Consultant and Account Director at Provenance Consulting. He has ten (10) years of experience in PSM related project execution in the petrochemical industry. His expertise includes executing and managing projects related to various elements of PSM including Management of Change (MOC), Mechanical Integrity (MI), Process Safety Information (PSI), Process Hazard Analysis (PHA), and compliance audits.

Blog

Mercer clarifies PHMSA and PSM boundaries with 2018 AIChE Whitepaper

DEC 2020 UPDATE
PHMSA Publishes FAQs
Midstream processing facilities under PHMSA jurisdiction should pay close attention to the proposed guidance document issued November 4, 2020. View our article on the PHMSA FAQs.

Jurisdictional Boundaries in Midstream

Where is the Line?

Account Director Lauren Mercer presented her whitepaper “Jurisdictional Boundaries in Midstream: Where is the Line?” at the 2018 AIChE Spring Meeting in Orlando, Florida. Mercer has a skill for taking complex and nuanced topics and making them manageable and consumable for the audience. The AIChE committee chose to record her presentation, and it will be made available in the archived AIChE meeting database, available to AIChE members and conference attendees.

Author: Lauren Mercer
Account Director

Paper Abstract

Where is the Line?

This paper discusses the gray area between OSHA and DOT jurisdiction, including coverage of terminal operations, railcars/trucks, and underground storage applicability. The nuances of PSM applicability, including interconnectivity and colocation, hydrocarbon used as a fuel, atmospheric tanks, and safety systems will be presented.

Furthermore, this paper will provide a history of jurisdictional boundary and PSM applicability cases/interpretations and will present examples of determining PSM jurisdiction and applicability. The intent is to pull all aspects of each regulations together in a single location to be used as a reference when evaluating the jurisdictional boundaries at a midstream facility.

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Presentation Slides

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Relief Systems, Webinar

Relief Devices, DOT, and OSHA: Insight for Pressure Relief Systems Engineers [Webinar]

Is your facility under the OSHA PSM Standard or the DOT PHMSA regulations? Are you confused by fuzzy jurisdictional boundaries? Take this webinar.

In this 60-minute sponsored webinar, hear Provenance Consulting tackle an issue that causes confusion for many oil and gas industry professionals: The OSHA PSM Standard and the DOT PHMSA regulations and which apply to their relief devices. Join in to examine the unclear boundary between one jurisdiction and the other and how this is a source of consternation for pressure relief systems engineers.

What is the impact on your pressure relief systems design? Which requirements are the same across both agencies? Which are different? Tune in to gain insight and guidance.

Take a look at your agenda:

  • An overview of the DOT PHMSA and its regulations
  • What you need to know about OSHA and the PSM standard
  • Understanding jurisdictional boundaries and the contentious nature between OSHA and DOT
  • What’s similar and what’s different and the impact on your pressure relief systems design and related process engineering activities

Learn more about our Relief Systems Services

Presenter

Justin Phillips, P.E.

Justin Phillips has over eight years of onshore and offshore oil & gas process engineering and project execution experience. His technical experience includes process design with specialty in flare and relief systems.

Justin is the Relief Systems Line of Service Manager at Provenance Consulting, LLC. He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas and is a Licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Texas.

PHA, Webinar

The Importance of Operating Procedures & How to Use Them Effectively

Could your facility be under-utilizing your operating procedures? Find out how to use them beyond day-to-day operations.

This 60-minute sponsored webinar starts off by looking at why operating procedures are essential to your safety and efficiency, OSHA requirements related to their content and generation and common mistakes made in the process. You’ll then go on to consider the ways operating procedures can be used beyond the day to day. Learn how operating procedures are a vital part of your PHAs and closely linked to PSI. In addition, discover effective methods for maintaining, storing and accessing operating procedures. By the end of the webinar, you’ll have a better understanding of operating procedures and how to use them more effectively in your facility.

Learn more about our PHA Services

Presenter

Justin Phillips, P.E.

Justin Phillips has over eight years of onshore and offshore oil & gas process engineering and project execution experience. His technical experience includes process design with specialty in flare and relief systems.

Justin is the Relief Systems Line of Service Manager at Provenance Consulting, LLC. He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas and is a Licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Texas.