The primary objectives of the Midland Engineering's safety audit programs are to identify the potential causes of accidental releases of hazardous substances and to enable management to employ the proper means to prevent such releases from occurring, to promote government and industry safety initiatives in these areas, and to share these results with the client's community, targeted industries, and other specified interested groups.

When the EPA established a Chemical Safety Audit  program as part of its broad safety initiatives. Midland's engineers immediately established a purpose of breaking down the EPA's CSA program: as a result, we sought to visit client facilities handling hazardous substances to gather information on safety practices and technologies in service to those clients; We heightened awareness of the need for, and promotion of, chemical safety among facilities handling hazardous substances, as well as in communities where chemicals are located; we established knowledge share practices to build cooperation among client facilities, the EPA, and other authorized parties by conducting joint audits; and we linked up with knowledge shares with access to the national database for the assembly and distribution of chemical process safety management information obtained from the all public facility audits.

We also have sought to inform our clients that the CSA program is not a compliance or regulatory program, but the EPA does have legal authority for entering a facility and conducting a chemical safety audit under sections 104(b) and 104(e) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). Preparing for that inspection is one of our core competencies. 

The audit consists of interviews with facility personnel and an on-site review of various aspects of facility operations related to the prevention of accidental chemical releases. Observations and conclusions from the audit are detailed in a report, available to the public, that identifies both problematic and successful chemical process safety management practices, as well as technologies for preventing and mitigating chemical releases.