What is the difference between occupational safety and process safety?

Occupational health and safety management system (OHSMS) and process safety management (PSM) are essential for hazardous chemical enterprises to maintain continuous operation and reduce damages. Occupational safety focuses on identification and risk controls on occupational health and safety for workers and managing environmental impacts from operating activities. Meanwhile, Process safety focuses on preventing and reducing…

Why Companies in the Chemical, Oil & Gas, and Petroleum industries need to establish a Process Safety Management System?

Process safety management 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 associated with a facility.[1] Lessons Learnt Process safety management is different from occupational health and safety management In recent decades, we have made great…