20 Elements of Risk Based Process Safety (RBPS) (2024)

FAQs

How many elements of PSM are covered by RbpsM? ›

It covers the four pillars and twenty elements that define the structure for the RBPS approach. The course will help you design, implement, and maintain a risk-based process safety management system that will fit your company's needs and resources.

In general, the RBPS management system is meant to address process safety issues in all operations involving the manufacture, use, or handling of hazardous substances or energy.

CCPS Recommended Risk-Based 20 PSM Elements:

Compliance with Standards. Process Safety Competency. Workforce Involvement. Stakeholder Outreach.

This post covers the 14 elements of process safety management (as identified by OSHA). You must incorporate these elements into your operation to be compliant with the PSM standard. For your PSM program to work effectively (and remain compliant), you must implement all these elements, not just some.

Whether you are developing HSMS, conducting a safety awareness workshop, or redesigning a general safety program, you must consider the 5 components of workplace safety: Education, Encouragement, Engineering, Enforcement and Evaluation. Let's break down each of these safety elements one by one.

Four key elements shape a successful safety program including management commitment and employee involvement, worksite safety analysis, hazard prevention and control, and safety and health training.

Hazard and risk analysis

The standard requires that hazard and risk assessment be carried out for bespoke systems: 'The EUC (equipment under control) risk shall be evaluated, or estimated, for each determined hazardous event'.

A hazard identification checklist, also known as a hazard assessment form, is a tool used by safety officers in performing hazard assessments. The main purpose of a hazard assessment is to identify potential health and safety hazards by examining conditions or practices in the workplace.

A Platform Approach for Aligning the 14 Elements of Process Safety Management. While it's critical to apply interrelated approaches to managing hazards to prevent the release of highly hazardous chemicals, translating Process Safety Management intent into operational practice is no easy feat.

What are the 16 sections of SDS? ›

The Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) created the next generation process safety management framework RBPS, recognizing that all hazards and risks in an operation or facility are not equal, consequently apportioning resources in a manner that focuses effort on greater hazards and higher risks as appropriate.

As a result, OSHA developed the Process Safety Management (PSM) standard (issued in 1992), which covers the manufacturing of explosives and processes involving threshold quantities of flammable liquids and flammable gasses (10,000 lbs), as well as 137 listed highly hazardous chemicals.

A Platform Approach for Aligning the 14 Elements of Process Safety Management. While it's critical to apply interrelated approaches to managing hazards to prevent the release of highly hazardous chemicals, translating Process Safety Management intent into operational practice is no easy feat.

A PHA analyzes:

The potential causes and consequences of fires, explosions and releases of toxic chemicals; and. The equipment, instrumentation, human actions and other factors which might affect the process.

Process Safety Management (PSM) compliance audits are specific and comprehensive, focusing on 14 elements of OSHA's PSM Standards. A well-planned and organized audit process — including cross-trained personnel, audit checklists and self-audits — can help ensure a successful outcome.