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These other
industries include:
mining
paper
food
ammonia refrigeration
electronics
Any industry that manages, uses, and stores hazardous materials or energies will benefit, as well. The
hazards beyond
toxic, flammable, explosive, and corrosive materials include combustible dusts and plant-based
materials.
Both the CCPS and API have reviewed their metrics guidance together and have issued new editions in
2021 [1] [2].
Both editions have added the Globally Harmonized System for Classification and Labeling of Chemicals
(GHS) for
threshold release categorization. The GHS hazard classifications were selected to reflect the analogous
U.S. DOT version
of the United Nations Dangerous Goods (UNDG) hazard classifications that are used in both the earlier
and 2021 editions.
The updated 2021 editions include reducing the hazard classification categories for acid and base
corrosives. This
was one of the updates most thoroughly studied and discussed. When compared to loss of containment
events from
toxic or flammable materials, the loss of containment events from corrosives tended to have less
impact. The result is
that the Threshold Release Category (TRC) for the corrosives has been downgraded one Tier level. The
overall effect is
that outdoor releases of strong acids and bases are removed from Tier 1 and moved to TRC-8, the
lowest hazard category
for Tier 2. Releases of moderate acids and bases are no longer reported as Tier 2 Process Safety Events
(PSEs). Although
this may reduce the number of reported Tier 1 and Tier 2 events, it does not lessen the amounts of
corrosives that have
been released.
Additional changes to the updated editions include definition clarifications for primary containment and
secondary
containment, direct costs, indoor releases, and unsafe locations. These updated definitions could reduce
the reported
A significant change to the 2021 API RP 754 is the mandated reporting of the Tier 1 PSE severity
weightings. The
severity weightings help define the differences between the severities of Tier 1 PSEs, only. There are no
mandates in any
The 2021 editions of both the CCPS and the API guidance have been designed to be consistent and to
complement
each other. Details on the development history of these metrics are provided in both publications.
Acknowledging that
performance metrics continue to evolve, CCPS has created a webpage dedicated to process safety
metrics and containing
Please notify CCPS if you find any issues in this Guide that may need to be addressed [5].