29 CFR 1910.119 Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals

What the authority record establishes

OSHA's PSM standard includes mechanical-integrity requirements for specified process equipment, written procedures, training, inspections and tests, correction of deficiencies, and quality assurance.

Binding within scope

The exact official title, issuing body, jurisdiction, version or application record, and linked source define the scope of this page. Readers should not transfer the authority's status to a commercial product or infer transaction-, patient-, system-, site-, or organization-specific applicability from this summary.

Why it matters to this market

Maintenance systems may support equipment records, schedules, procedures, qualifications, results, deficiencies, and retained evidence while applicability and compliant execution remain employer responsibilities.

Affected operating stages

• Equipment Scope
• Procedures
• Training
• Inspection And Test
• Deficiency Correction
• Quality Assurance

Capabilities to examine

Asset Registry And Hierarchy

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for asset registry and hierarchy.

Work Requests And Work Order Control

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for work requests and work order control.

Preventive Maintenance Scheduling

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for preventive maintenance scheduling.

Inspection And Route Execution

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for inspection and route execution.

Labor And Crew Scheduling

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for labor and crew scheduling.

Job Plans And Standard Procedures

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for job plans and standard procedures.

Safety Permits And Compliance Evidence

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for safety permits and compliance evidence.

Document Control And Audit Trails

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for document control and audit trails.

Affected buyer audiences

• process safety
• maintenance
• inspection
• covered employers

Implementation questions

• Which entities, products, populations, transactions, systems, sites, or jurisdictions are actually within scope?
• What is binding, what is guidance, and what is a technical or consensus standard?
• Which publication, adoption, effective, application, transition, and enforcement dates differ?
• Who owns legal, clinical, quality, regulatory, policy, or operational interpretation?
• How will a source revision affect open work and historical decisions?

Interpretation boundary

The publication does not determine PSM applicability, inspection methods or frequencies, equipment fitness, legal compliance, or safe operation.