You may be asking, what the heck is this all about… you mean OSHA is prohibited from inspecting “small businesses who have PSM covered processes” – YES, in some NAICS’s OSHA has been prohibited from doing PSM inspections when the small businesses are within an industry that has lower than national average injury rates. Now I am sure you are asking, what the heck do injury rates have to do with process safety risks? And you would be asking the same question that OSHA is asking of Congress, that same group of elected officials that beat OSHA over their heads with the “Baker Report” from the 2005 BP-Texas City Explosion in which the report says we MUST separate out “process risks” from “occupational injury risks”, yet somehow those elected officials felt inclined to use injury/illness rates as a metric to prohibit OSHA from enforcing 1910.119. Must I need to remind everyone that West Fertilizer in West, TX (that “small businesses” that blew up killing 14) would be OFF-LIMITS for OSHA to inspect under this budget! Here are OSHA’s request and rationale to CHANGE the language in their budget…