OSHA has published a set of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) regarding their REVISED PSM Retail Exemption Policy. The questions they answer are:
- What is the Process Safety Management Standard?
- What is the Retail Exemption and what will the revised guidance do?
- Why will OSHA modify its retail exemption?
- How does the interpretation relate to Executive Order 13650 and the incident at West Fertilizer?
- When does the new interpretation of the retail exemption take effect?
- How will the upcoming modification to OSHA’s PSM retail facility interpretation affect employers?
- Will small employers receive help developing, initiating, and instituting my PSM program?
- Did OSHA estimate the economic impact of the policy changes?
- Does PSM apply to non-manufacturing facilities, such as rural, agricultural-related facilities?
- Will this change in the interpretation of the retail exemption result in the closure of local
- facilities, the loss of jobs, higher food production costs?
- Will this change mean that distributorships will be required to deliver Anhydrous Ammonia in smaller quantities?
CLICK HERE for OSHA’s FAQ regarding their REVISED PSM Retail Exemption Policy