No, your car will not be a “covered process” under PSM, but only because it will NOT have 10,000 pounds of this Category 1 Flammable Gas. But this new refrigerant is coming and it will be in your car’s air conditioning very soon! A lot of the literature for this new refrigerant uses phrases like “XXXXXX can be described as being “mildly flammable” as measured by standard methodology”, yet the manufacturer’s SDS looks like this:
Will our cars soon be miniature PSM/RMP covered processes due to the “mildly flammable” refrigerant they will contain?
