Attorneys Say OSHA Plans To Revive PSM Reform Push As Soon As 2022

Employers’ attorneys say OSHA officials have told them the agency intends to update its 1992 process safety management (PSM) standard during President Joe Biden’s current term and could release a formal proposal as soon as next year, after the Trump administration halted an Obama-era push to rework the rule. “We have heard from OSHA officials in informal conversations that they intend to move forward with the PSM rulemaking. That it is something that they intend to accomplish in this administration,”...