Judge's Decision Favoring BP On Process Safety Citations Sets Up Wider Enforcement Issues

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August 12, 2013 at 09:00 PM
An administrative law judge (ALJ) has thrown out most of OSHA's citations and fines against BP Products North America and an Ohio subsidiary over a slew of allegations that the company violated process safety management (PSM) standards -- a decision that poses serious issues for the agency's enforcement of the rule and potentially has wider implications for the industry's reliance on generally accepted safety practices.