CFR 114 - Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals; Explosives and Blasting Agents; Final Rule

On February 24, 1992, Federal OSHA promulgated a new occupational safety and health standard for General Industry (Federal Register). This new standard, Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals - 29 CFR 1910.119, is intended to eliminate or mitigate the consequences of catastrophic releases of highly hazardous chemicals such as toxicity hazards, fires, and explosions. Concurrent with this action, paragraph (k) of OSHA's standard on Explosives and Blasting Agents, 29 CFR 1910.109, has been amended to include references to this new standard for the manufacture of explosives and pyrotechnics.

This new federal final rule at 29 CFR 1910 Subpart H was adopted verbatim in North Carolina by the Commissioner of Labor with an effective date of May 26, 1992.