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On August 7, 2017, the California Department of Industrial Relations and the California Environmental Protection Agency amended the California’s Occupational Safety and Health Process Safety Management (PSM) standard to improve workplace safety and hazard prevention and management at the 15 refineries in California. The new standards are more stringent than federal OSHA’s process safety management (PSM) standard. They place new administrative and financial burdens on refiners and, according to a state regulatory impact assessment, will cost refineries $58 million dollars to comply with the new standards in the first year alone. The new standards take effect on October 1, 2017.

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