CSB Publishes On-Line Incident Reporting Form

Yesterday the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) published a link to their new online chemical release reporting form. They also established a new page on their web site, that currently only provides login and registration for their incident report rule news. This form supports the chemical release incident reporting rule that was published in February and became effective on March 23, 2020.

The .PDF form would be downloaded from the site, completed in the event of an incident and then emailed to report@csb.gov.

40 CFR 1604 (not yet officially published on govinfo.gov, wording can be found here from final rule) requires that:

“The owner or operator of a stationary source must report in accordance with paragraph (b) or (c) of this section, any accidental release resulting in a fatality, serious injury, or substantial property damage [links to definitions of highlighted terms added]” {§1604.3}.

The CSB has not yet published the reporting guidance document promised in the preamble to the final rule.