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The best commercial brokers in the business know their customers sometimes better than customers know themselves. So, just who belongs to this vaunted group of middlemen and women for the chemicals industry? Find out the 2011 Power Broker® results.

OSHA is inspecting chemical and refining operations for process safety management--what are they looking for?

Fifteen people died and more than 170 were injured in an explosion and fire at BP's Texas City refinery on March 23, 2005. Four months later, on July 28, 2005, a hydrogen fire that had the potential to cause additional deaths and injuries broke out at the Texas City refinery, resulting in a Level 3 community alert, followed by another Level 3 event on August 10. An 11-member Independent Safety Review Panel, headed by James A. Baker III, was called in to see what was going wrong.

The latest in RSS news feeds geared toward the chemical industry, care of the Chemical Industry Council of California.

The chemical industry's domestic and international trade groups include:

The Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI is the organization for executives in the manufacturing business where they can participate in a dialogue among peers on management styles, the marketplace and issues confronting them in that space.

The Society of Chemical Manufacturers & Affiliates sponsors ChemStewards, in conjunction with Chartis Insurance. Read more about the SOCMA's broad risk management program.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security released an interim final rule on security regulations for high-risk chemical facilities. Read more on the CFATS here.