Agencies Seen Pushing Extreme-Weather Mandates In Facility Safety Rules

A prominent industry attorney says OSHA is likely to include mandates for facilities to plan for extreme weather like hurricanes in any overhaul of the process safety management (PSM) standard, building on what is already a broad push by several other program offices and agencies to incorporate weather resiliency into regulatory programs. Justin Savage, a partner at the law firm Sidley Austin, told Inside OSHA in a recent interview that he sees both EPA and OSHA adding storm considerations...