Governing regulations
It was on July 17, 1990, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) had designed a plan for the workplace managements about the dangers involved in the processing of highly hazardous goods, which paved the way for establishing OSHA standard 29 CFR 1910.119 – Process Safety Management of Hazardous Chemicals.
Since then, OSHA, along with the approved states, has been working together to ensure industries meet the requirements of the process safety standard as per 29 CFR 1910.119. This course emphasize the importance of the approved state plan of California for the process safety management involving highly dangerous materials, as stipulated in the California Code of Regulations CCR Title 8 Section 5189.