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Total # of Recommendations
788
Total # of Open Recommendations
189
Total # of Closed Recommendations
599
Total % of Open 24 vs. Closed 76

Public Comments

Click here to view the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board's (CSB's) comments on the State of California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to adopt New Section §5189.1 Process Safety Management for Refineries.

Click here to view the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board’s (CSB’s) response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) March 14, 2016, Proposed Rule, “Accidental Release Prevention Requirements: Risk Management Programs Under the Clean Air Action, Section 112(r)(7). 

Click here to view the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board's (CSB) comments on the State of California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) Division of Occupational Safety and Health Proposed GISO §5189.1 Version 5.0 – September 14, 2015, Process Safety Management (PSM) for Petroleum Refineries
 
Click here to view the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board's (CSB) comments on the joint Department of Defense / General Services Administartion / National Aeronautics and Space Administration's "Federal Aquistion Regulations: Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Proposed Rule" that was published in the Federal Register on May 28, 2015  
 

Click here to view The US Chemical Safety Board’s (CSB’s) response to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement’s (BSEE’s) April 17, 2015, Proposed Rule, “Oil and Gas and Sulphur Operations in the Other Continental Shelf – Blowout Preventer Systems and Well Control” July 16, 2015 

Click here to view the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board's (CSB) comments on the U.S. Department of Transportation’s notice, “Hazardous Materials: Revision of Emergency Response Guidebook” (FR Doc. 2014-20683)
 
Click here to view the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board's comments on the State of California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) Division of Occupational Safety and Health Proposed GISO §5189.1 Version 4.5 – May 26, 2015, Process Safety Management (PSM) for Petroleum Refineries.
 
Click here to view public comments on the proposed rule that augments 40 CFR part 1600, which governs the administration of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board.
 

Click here to access the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board's (CSB's) response to the Environmental Protection Ag.ency's (EPA's) July 31 , 2014 Request for Information (at 79 FR 44604) on potential revisions to its Risk Management Program regulations and related program. (Docket No. EPA-HQ-OEM-2014-0328;  October 29, 2014)

Click here to access the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board's comments EPA’s proposed revision to require fence line monitoring at refineries and offers the following comments to strengthen the proposal and to make the information collected more accessible to the public. (Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-OAR-2010-0682;  October 28, 2014)

Click here to access the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board's response to OSHA's December 9, 2013 Request for Information (at 78 FR 73756) on potential revisions to several agency standards, including the Process Safety Management standard

Click here to access public comments on the CSB's Draft Report, "Regulatory Report: Chevron Richmond Refinery Pipe Rupture (Report No. 2012-03-I-CA, December 2013)

Click here to access public comments on National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Study: Inherently Safer Chemical Processes: The Use of Methyl Isocyanate at Bayer CropScience 

Click here to access public comments on Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) Chemical Release Reporting

Click here to access public comments on Comments on the Draft Evaluation of Response to the CSB's Fatigue Recommendation to API and USW  

 
 
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