OCS Publishes Chemical Security Quarterly – March 2021

Today CISA’s Office for Chemical Security published a link to the March 2021 Chemical Security Quarterly on their Chemical Security Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) Knowledge Center. As I noted earlier this month this newsletter had already been sent out as an email to personnel that have signed up for distribution.

There is a minor problem with the links on the right-side .PDF document. Instead of taking one to the article within the newsletter it tries to connect with https://admin.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDHSCISA/bulletins.

Many of the articles are somewhat dated, though the information provided still has value. Many of the topics have already been covered here in this blog. The topics listed below have not been addressed here in this blog in some time.

• Global Congress on Chemical Security and Emerging Threats Update,

• How to Report Suspicious Activity and Security Incidents,

• Compliance Corner: PSP Rollout Continues, and

• Request for Technical and On-Site Assistance

OCS Posts Links Chemical Security Quarterly to CFATS Knowledge Center

Today the CISA Office for Chemical Security (OCS) published links on the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) Knowledge Center to two issues of their Chemical Security Quarterly publication; August 2020 and December 2020. These flyers are typically distributed by email (you can subscribe to the CISA email distribution here), I just received my copy of the March 2021 issue.

While some of the articles in these two issues are somewhat dated (the description of the ‘upcoming’ December 2020 Chemical Security Seminars for instance), there is a lot of good information about the CFATS program in them. Since CISA no longer dates changes to their web pages, the section on ‘New and Updated Resources’ provides a list of recently updated pages. Pages listed in the December 2020 issue that have not already been discussed here include:

• CFATS and the CISA Gateway,

• CFATS Authorization Inspections Fact Sheet,

• CFATS Compliance Inspections Fact Sheet,

• CFATS Penalty Policy Overview Flyer,

• CFATS Most Commonly Regulated Chemicals of Interest,

• CFATS Report Violations,

• CFATS Propane Flyer,

• CFATS Receiving a COI Flyer,

As far as I can tell, there is no really new information in any of these flyers, they are mainly reformatting to reflect the change from NPPD to CISA. Similarly, OCS has updated the following CFATS industry flyers:

• Brewery,

• Colleges and Universities,

• Cosmetic Manufacturing,

• Fishery and Hatchery,

• Food Manufacturing,

• Glass Production,

• Laboratory,

• Meat Processing,

• Pool and Water Park,

• Pulp and Paper Production,

• Warehouse, Storage and Distribution Facilities,

• Winery,