Process Safety Management for Petroleum Refineries

  • GENERAL INDUSTRY SAFETY ORDERS,
    New Section 5189.1
Status
Public hearing: Sep. 15.2016
Comment period: Jul. 15, 2016 - Sep. 15, 2016
Filed with Secretary of State: July 27, 2017
Effective date: Oct 1, 2017

Rulemaking Documents

  1. Center for Chemical Process Safety (2007), Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.(This document is copyrighted and therefore is not posted. The document may be viewed at the Standards Board office.)
  2. Center for Chemical Process Safety (2009), Inherently Safer Chemical Processes: A Life Cycle Approach, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.(This document is copyrighted and therefore is not posted. The document may be viewed at the Standards Board office.)
  3. Edmund G. Brown Jr., Governor (February 2014), Improving Public and Worker Safety at Oil Refineries, Report of the Interagency Working Group on Refinery Safety.
  4. Mendeloff, John. Refinery Process Safety Performance and Models of Government-Industry Relations. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2013. http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/CT392.html.
  5. U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, Energy Assurance Daily, available at http://www.oe.netl.doe.gov/docs/eads/ead120914.pdf (accessed December 9, 2014). (Note: For weekly summaries, go to "Download EADs" and scroll to "Petroleum.").
  6. United States Census Bureau (2012), Industry Statistics Portal: Business Data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 2012 NAICS: 324110, Petroleum Refineries, available at http://www.census.gov/econ/isp/sampler.php?naicscode=324110&naicslevel=6#/, accessed May 16, 2016.
  7. U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), (April 2013), Interim Investigation Report on the Chevron Richmond Refinery Fire http://www.csb.gov/assets/1/19/Draft_Report_for_Public_Comment.pdf
  8. U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), (January 2015), Final Investigation Report January 2015 Chevron Richmond Refinery Pipe Rupture And Fire CSB Report No. 2012-03-I-CA. http://www.csb.gov/assets/1/19/Chevron_Final_Investigation_Report_2015-01-28.pdf
  9. Advisory Committee Meetings and Information from: September 16, 2014; September 17, 2014; November 6, 2014; and June 22, 2015*.

* Please contact OSHSB@dir.ca.gov to request a copy of the Advisory Committee handwritten attendance sheets.

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