BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Chicago X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VEVENT UID:104@midwestawma.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210121T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210121T133000 DTSTAMP:20210112T173549Z URL:https://midwestawma.org/events/jan2020_reeval-osha/ SUMMARY:A&WMA ONLINE: January 2021 Monthly Meeting - Reevaluating OSHA Chem ical Process Safety Management Compliance Following the Wynnewood Decision DESCRIPTION:Program details\n12:00 pm - Presentation via Zoom\n\nLogin info rmation will be sent to participants 1 day prior to the event.\nReevaluati ng OSHA Chemical Process Safety Management Compliance Following the Wynnew ood Decision\nCompliance with OSHA’s chemical Process Safety Management (PSM) standard may have just gotten harder to satisfy.  This is because r ecently a federal court affirmed OSHA’s interpretation of its PSM progra m and concluded that a vessel does not actually need to contain a highly h azardous chemical to be subject to PSM — in this case a steam boiler — as long as the vessel is interconnected to a process that is subject to t he standard.  The impacts affiliated with this court ruling present a dil emma for facility owners and operators which have previously concluded cer tain activities or processes\, such as steam boilers or other utilities\, are not part of the “covered process” for the PSM or EPA’s RMP stand ard.\n\nDuring this presentation\, Andrew Brought (Spencer Fane LLP) and N ancy Liang (Trinity Consultants) will discuss this case and potential rami fications stemming therefrom.  The presenters intend to address the follo wing questions that will assist facilities with PSM compliance:\n\n What did the federal court hold and how did it come to its conclusion?\n Where will this federal court ruling be applied and what does it mean for my fa cility?\n What are the considerations and factors my facility needs to re consider in light of the Wynnewood decision?\n How can my facility go abo ut taking next steps to maintain PSM compliance?\n\nSpeakers\n\nAndrew Bro ught counsels manufacturers\, industrial clients\, and businesses with com plex environmental and workplace safety / OSHA matters.  Andrew has exten sive experience helping companies with workplace safety incidents and indu strial accidents that involve the intersection of health\, safety\, and en vironmental regulations and government agencies including OSHA\, the EPA\, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Board\, and the Justice Department.  From complex workplace fatalities and injuries to more routine compliance inspections\, Andrew is frequently called upon by a variety of industrial sectors to assist in handling crisis management situations\, strategic re sponse\, and incident investigations.  He has a particular focus on chemi cal accident prevention programs\, including EPA’s RMP program and OSHA ’s PSM program and cases involving chemical releases.\n\nNancy Liang ser ves as a Managing Consultant in Trinity’s Kansas City office\, serving c lients since 2011 in environmental and process safety consulting. Ms. Lian g assists clients in the chemical\, petroleum refining\, and general manuf acturing facilities with RMP / PSM applicability determinations\, Process Hazard Analysis (PHA)\, and compliance audits. Ms. Liang also received for mal training on HAZOP studies and other PHA techniques.\n\n \;\n\n\n\n Only online payments are being accepted at this time.\n\n\n\nPlease select only one Ticket Type.  If you need to register more than one person\, re gister each separately. CATEGORIES:Monthly Meetings LOCATION:https://midwestawma.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR