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Farley & Partners to Host California PSM Seminars

May 14, 2025

Partner Devon Downs is again hosting two California Process Safety Management (PSM) Seminars. Andrew Kong (Cal/OSHA Enforcement Statewide PSM Program Manager) will participate in both sessions. Kong will discuss recent Cal/OSHA enforcement and other developments under California's refinery PSM standard (5189.1). This year will include a special presentation from ioMosaic SVP & Partner Neil Prophet and Director & Partner Marcel Amorós Martí on relief system design API updates. In addition to these discussions, firm attorneys will make presentations on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Risk Management Program (RMP) regulation, RMP inspections and enforcement, incident response, and developments at the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB).

Meeting participants include attorneys, safety managers, and operational and technical subject matter experts. The first session will occur on September 15 in Torrance. The second session will be on September 16 in Concord.

Downs is a Chambers-ranked attorney who works with energy companies and chemical manufacturers on a wide range of process safety and workplace safety matters. She has played lead roles in the responses to major industrial incidents and often is her client’s point of contact with agencies such as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the CSB, and the EPA. She also is well versed in state plan enforcement having advised clients in connection with over 50 refinery inspections in California. The 2025 PSM seminars represent the ninth year that Downs has coordinated the meetings.

According to Downs, the goal of the sessions is to bring together California regulators and representatives of California refiners and other companies in the process industries to discuss PSM and other workplace safety issues. "In our experience," said Downs, "it is essential to provide opportunities for the individuals charged with implementing safety regulations to hear directly from the regulators. We have hosted these seminars for many years and we are grateful that Mr. Kong has agreed to come to both sessions and share his perspective."

For more information, please contact Danica McAllister at danica.mcallister@farleyllp.com or click on the button below.

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