Tenth Circuit Upholds OSHA Interpretations on Scope of PSM Standard
By EsqSocial Corporation 03/11/20
On October 27, 2020, the Tenth Circuit upheld a series of OSHA citations that were issued to an oil refining company following a fatal boiler explosion. In doing so, the Tenth Circuit upheld OSHA interpretations that expansively view the scope of a “process” that is subject to the Process Safety Management (PSM) standard. This decision has implications under both the OSHA PSM standard and the EPA Risk Management Program (RMP) standard, as the EPA RMP program uses a definition of process that...
By: Beveridge & Diamond PC