{"id":3302,"date":"2018-05-16T16:47:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T20:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/?p=3302"},"modified":"2018-05-17T00:29:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T04:29:24","slug":"chem-board-dodges-trumps-bullet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2018\/05\/16\/chem-board-dodges-trumps-bullet-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemical Safety Board Dodges Trump&#8217;s Bullet Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But is the agency selling its soul?<\/p>\n<h2>House Gives CSB Thumbs Up<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2120\" src=\"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/west-texas-fertilizer-plant-explosion-2-768x576-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"West Fertilizer Chemical Safety Board\" width=\"356\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/west-texas-fertilizer-plant-explosion-2-768x576-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/west-texas-fertilizer-plant-explosion-2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The House Interior and Environment Appropriations Committee has not only (again) defied President Trump&#8217;s proposal to eliminate the Chemical Safety Board, but the committee actually plans to add a million dollars to the agency&#8217;s Fiscal Year 2019 budget.\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/appropriations.house.gov\/news\/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=395297\">Committee&#8217;s bill<\/a>, released Monday, funds the CSB at $12 million, $1 million above the fiscal year 2018 level.\u00a0 This is the <a href=\"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2017\/07\/11\/chemical-safety-board-survives\/\">second year in a row<\/a> that Trump has proposed eliminating the CSB and the House has defied him.<\/p>\n<h2>Stranger Things<\/h2>\n<p>That&#8217;s the good news. But in other news-of-the-weird, the CSB and the Chlorine Institute (CI) have issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chlorineinstitute.org\/pub\/\">joint statement<\/a> that, while providing some good advice (e.g. don&#8217;t scrimp on preventive maintenance), reads like an advertisement for the Institute:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">CI regularly updates its written guidance for chlorine producers and users by working with its member companies to determine best practices and contracting external scientific expertise. Additionally, members share best practices during in-person meetings throughout the year. Typically, industry colleagues review highly detailed, technical, and specific safety best practices and together improve their own safety performance and that of the entire chlor-alkali industry. Similarly, there are numerous other industry conferences, classes, and organizations focused on particular issues such as corrosion, non-destructive testing or rupture disc replacement frequency among other topics.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we all love these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vo9AH4vG2wA\">Kumbaya<\/a> moments and everything, but remember, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csb.gov\/about-the-csb\/mission\/\">mission<\/a> of the CSB is to &#8220;drive chemical safety change through <em><strong>independent<\/strong> <\/em>investigation to protect poeple (sic) and the environment.&#8221; This is not to say that the CSB shouldn&#8217;t praise an organization for its consensus standards or corporate practices &#8212; and the CSB often does &#8212; but usually based on evidence resulting from an investigation about an incident that is addressed by that standard or practice.<\/p>\n<p>Will this joint statement make future CSB investigations appear to be less independent and less objective in the wake of an incident that involves the use of Chlorine Institute standards?\u00a0 The impact of Board investigations rests largely on the perceived objectivity of its recommendations and anything that detracts from that objectivity &#8212; or even the <em>appearance<\/em> of objectivity &#8212; will undermine the CSB&#8217;s effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p>To my knowledge, this is the first time the CSB has issued this type of joint statement and it&#8217;s unclear whether the full Board even voted on it.<\/p>\n<p>Agencies charged with conducting objective investigations need to maintain objectivity and the appearance of objectivity at all times.\u00a0 Joint statements like this endorsing an organization&#8217;s practices that may in the future be subject to an investigation, do not generate confidence in the process.<\/p>\n<h2>Solidarity Forever<\/h2>\n<p>Meanwhile, in other news, CSB staff voted last month to organize a union with the American Federation of Government Employees. The vote was 10 to 5 out of a total of 19 eligible. The CSB has been plagued by internal issues over its entire lifetime and many employees are reportedly\u00a0concerned about deskilling of their jobs, dumbing down of reports with a focus on the technical causes of an incident, rather than the root causes and recommendations related to the flawed regulatory and public policy environment that can more effectively address the ongoing serious industry incidents.\u00a0 Close to one-third of CSB investigators left the agency in the last year mostly due to management issues, and no investigators have been hired to replace those that have left.\u00a0 Perhaps the House budget bill will encourage the CSB to begin hiring again.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bna.com\/lack-union-complicates-n73014471737\/\">Occupational Safety and Health Reporter<\/a> wrote about the CSB&#8217;s organizing issues last year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But is the agency selling its soul? House Gives CSB Thumbs Up The House Interior and Environment Appropriations Committee has not only (again) defied President Trump&#8217;s proposal to eliminate the Chemical Safety Board, but the committee actually plans to add a million dollars to the agency&#8217;s Fiscal Year 2019 budget.\u00a0 The Committee&#8217;s bill, released Monday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chemical Safety Board Dodges Trump&#039;s Bullet Again<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Chemical Safety Board lives to fight another year. 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