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Chemical security seminars enter last week

December 14, 2021

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) will be hosting the final Chemical Security Seminar of 2021 on December 15, featuring panel discussions on supply chain disruptions, emergency management collaboration, and a workshop to assist chemical industry members in designing their own chemical security exercises.

CISA and the Chemical Sector Coordinating Council (SCC) to host Chemical Security Summit

November 23, 2020

The Chemical Security Summit will be hosted by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in collaboration with the Chemical Sector Coordinating Council (SCC). The summit is the signature industry event for chemical representatives across the chemical and interconnected sectors—including energy, communications, transportation, and water—to learn, share perspectives, and engage in dialogue. Securing chemicals in an evolving threat environment requires cross collaboration between facility owners and operators, industry, law enforcement, community members, and all levels of government.

New Sandia Director is First Woman to Lead National Security Lab

June 23, 2015

Jill M. Hruby was named the next president and director of Sandia National Laboratories, the country’s largest national lab.

ASSE Supports Action

Obama Strengthens Chemical Facility Safety and Security Oversight

Federal Agency Coordination Stressed

August 6, 2013

The American Society of Safety Engineers applauds and supports a Presidential Executive Order to improve federal agency coordination of the national chemical facility safety and security oversight.

Mapping Alternative Routes to CFATS Compliance

Carlos Barbosa

August 14, 2012

Chemical companies seeking to comply with federal Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) regulations have focused almost entirely on using the Department of Homeland Security's Web-based Chemical Security Assessment Tool (CSAT) to create and submit a Site Security Plan.

Student Was Buying Chemicals

See Something, Say Something Works in Texas Terror Conviction

Supplier Alerted FBI to Purchase Request

June 29, 2012

A Saudi Arabian citizen Wednesday, June 27 was convicted of attempting to use chemicals to build a weapon of mass destruction. One target was the home of a former U.S. President.

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How CFATS Changed the Face of Chemical Facility Security

Carlos Barbosa

June 12, 2012

With the establishment of the federal Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) regulations, security is a matter of regulatory compliance for the chemical industry in the United States for the first time in history.

ON DEMAND: Business-impacting events such as severe weather, man-made disasters, and supply chain disruption are increasing in frequency and making impacts around the globe.

Employees don’t feel prepared to navigate an increasingly dangerous world, and they expect their employers to not only care about their personal safety, but to actively keep them safe.