For those who live within the process safety bubble, you know all about the MOC “requirements” from OSHA and EPA process safety standards. However, an MOC program is vital to any formal Safety Management System. And you would be correct to say “OSHA (nor EPA) does not require one outside a PSM/RMP standards. But after a busy year helping clients with both traditional occupational safety and health and process safety matters, it became more clear just how critical this tool has become.
In this article, I will use three (3) examples of how a business spent thousands of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars to correct audit/assessment opportunities, only to find their efforts destroyed by their own lack of “managing changes” within their facility. The level of frustration this has caused these facilities, from senior management down to the line workers, is immense and just UNNECESSARY.
- Control of Hazardous Energy
- Permit-Required Confined Spaces
- Hearing Conservation
