U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board

The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB ) is an independent agency of the U.S. Government, based in Washington, DC. It deals with the investigation of industrial accidents. The board members are appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the Senate.

History

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board is empowered by the Clean Air Act of 1990 and began work in January 1998.

"The principal role of the new chemical safety board is to investigate accidents to deterministic mine the conditions and Circumstances Which led up to the event and to identify the cause or Causes as did similar events might also be Prevented. "

"The main task of the new Chemical Safety Board is to investigate accidents to determine the conditions and circumstances that led to the event and to identify the cause or circumstances, so that similar events can be prevented. "

The Congress gave the CSB a unique statutory mandate: No other authority or law enforcement officers may not affect the activity of the CSB. Following the successful model of the National Transportation Safety Board and the United States Department of Transportation, the Congress ( OSHA) ruled that the CSB 's investigative function completely independent of rule -making and enforcement agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration performs. The Congress recognized that CSB investigations would better identify chemical hazards that were not supervised by the authorities. One of the known studies of the body is the root cause analysis of the refinery explosion in Texas City.