(front row, L-R) John A. Sofranko, Executive Director, AIChE; Arthur E.
Dungan, President, CI; Susan Parker Bodine, Assistant Administrator, Assistant Administrator, Office
of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, EPA; Scott Berger, Director, CCPS; Susan Yashinskie, Vice
President, Member Relations and Development, NPRA; (back row, L-R) Joseph Acker, President, SOCMA;
Madeleine Jacobs, Executive Director, ACS; Tom Gibson, Senior Vice President, ACC; Red Cavaney,
President and CEO, API; sign a national Alliance.
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Signatories are:
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- American Chemistry Council (ACC)
- API
- Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS, a Technical Alliance of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers)
- The Chlorine Institute (CI)
- National Petrochemical and Refiners Association (NPRA)
- Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association (SOCMA)
- United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Through the OSHA and Process Safety Alliance, the signatories will focus on
providing the Alliance Partners' members and the general public, including small businesses, with
information, guidance, and access to training resources in the field of process safety including the
management of chemical reactivity hazards. The Alliance's organizations will work together to help
prevent catastrophic explosions, fires, and toxic releases to protect employees, manufacturing
facilities, the environment and the public. The goals of the Alliance include:
Training and education:
- Deliver or arrange for the delivery of process safety courses.
Outreach and communication:
- Speak, exhibit, or appear at OSHA's or the Alliance Partners' conferences and regional or local
meetings, such as those attended by small businesses.
- Share information among OSHA and EPA personnel and industry process safety professionals
regarding the best practices or effective approaches developed by the Alliance Partners, and
publicize results through outreach by Alliance Partners and through OSHA- or Alliance
Partners-developed materials, training programs, workshops, seminars, and Web sites.
- Work with other Alliance participants on specific issues and projects on the identification and
management of chemical reactivity hazards that are addressed and developed through the Alliance
Program.
Promoting the national dialogue on workplace safety and health:
- Convene or participate in forums, roundtable discussions, or stakeholder meetings on issues
including process safety to help forge innovative solutions in communities and the workplace or to
provide input on process safety issues.
Related Documents
Alliance Agreements
Alliance News Releases
Activities and Events
- October 20-26, 2008:
2008 Drug-Free Work Week. The Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers
Association and a number of other Alliance Program participants are supporting
the 2008 Drug-Free Work Week. Sponsored annually by the U.S. Department of
Labor’s
Working Partners for an Alcohol- and Drug-Free Workplace Program, the Week’s
focus is educating employers, employees and the public about the importance of
being drug-free as an essential component of a safe and healthful workplace.
- July 31, 2008: Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association "Combustible Dust" Webinar.
- Sanji Kanth, Safety Engineer, Office of General Industry Enforcement, Directorate of Enforcement Programs, USDOL-OSHA,
gave a presentation on OSHA regulatory and enforcement activities involving combustible dust; and Harry White, Personal Safety
Technology Leader, The Dow Chemical Company, gave a presentation on combustible dust best practices from an industry perspective during the Webinar.
- May 4-10, 2008:
2008 North American Occupational Safety and Health (NAOSH) Week. The Synthetic Organic
Chemical Manufacturers Association and the Center for Chemical Process Safety and a number of
other Alliance Program participants supported 2008 NAOSH Week, "Safety is Good Business."
Sponsored annually by the American Society of Safety Engineers and the Canadian Society of Safety
Engineering, the Week focuses on the importance of preventing injuries and illnesses in the
workplace.
- April 7-9, 2008: American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE) Fourth Global Congress on
Process Safety, New Orleans, Louisiana.
- April 7, 2008: Mark R. Briggs, Area Director, Region VI, Houston South, Texas Area Office,
USDOL-OSHA, gave the keynote presentation at the conference.
- April 2008 – August 2008: Chemical Reactivity Hazards: Laboratory and Pilot Scale Recognition
and Control Workshop. The American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Chemical Health and Safety
developed the workshop through the OSHA and Process Safety Alliance to provide participants with
the knowledge and skill to screen processes for potential hazards, recognize when reactive hazards
are present, and implement appropriate controls to reduce the risk of an incident associated with
chemical reactivity hazards in laboratories and pilot plants. ACS representative, Neal Langerman,
Ph.D., Advanced Chemical Safety, is presenting the workshop throughout the United States during
2008. [More...]
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