Compliance Regulations and Guidance Affecting your Industry

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is a risk-based regulator and ARROW is the framework it uses to make risk-based regulation operational. ARROW stands for the Advanced, Risk-Responsive Operating Framework and covers all risks, firm-specific, thematic and internal.

This FMVSS establishes minimum performance requirements for motorcycle helmets.

This FMVSS specifies requirements for child restraint systems used in motor vehicles and aircraft. It applies to:

Items of motor vehicle equipment.

This FMVSS specifies performance requirements for the protection of vehicle occupants in crashes. It applies to:

Passenger Cars, Multipurpose Passenger Vehicles, Trucks, Buses, Pressure Vessels, and Explosive Devices

This FMVSS specifies requirements for service brakes and associated parking brake systems, to ensure safe braking performance under normal and emergency driving conditions.

This FMVSS specifies performance requirements for motorcycle brake systems.

This FMVSS establishes performance and equipment requirements for braking systems on vehicles equipped with air brake systems. It applies to:

Trucks, Buses, and Trailers Equipped with Air Brake Systems

This FMVSS specifies requirements for the performance and location of inside and outside rearview mirrors. It applies to:

Passenger Cars, Multipurpose Passenger Vehicles, Trucks, Buses, School Buses, and Motorcycles

This FMVSS specifies tire dimensions and laboratory test requirements for bead unseating resistance, strength, endurance, and high-speed performance. It applies to passenger cars.

This FMVSS specifies requirements for original and replacement lamps, reflective devices, and associated equipment, to provide adequate illumination of the roadway and enhance conspicuity of motor vehicles on the public roads. It applies to:

Passenger Cars, Multipurpose Passenger Vehicles, Trucks, Buses, Trailers, and Motorcycles, and Lamps, Reflective Devices, and Associated Equipment for Replacement

This FMVSS specifies requirements for windshield wiping and washing systems to ensure driver visibility under adverse weather conditions. It applies to:

Passenger Cars, Multipurpose Passenger Vehicles, Trucks, and Buses

This FMVSS specifies requirements for windshield wiping and washing systems to ensure driver visibility under adverse weather conditions. It applies to:

Passenger Cars,Multipurpose Passenger Vehicles, Trucks, and Buses

This FMVSS specifies requirements for the location, identification, and illumination of motor vehicle controls and displays. It applies to:

Passenger Cars, Multipurpose Passenger Vehicles, Trucks, and Buses

Since each chemical facility faces different security challenges, Congress explicitly directed the Department to issue regulations "establishing risk-based performance standards for security chemical facilities." 

Performance standards are particularly appropriate in a security context because they provide individual facilities the flexibility to address their unique security challenges. Using performance standards rather than prescriptive standards also helps to increase the overall security of the sector by varying the security practices used by different chemical facilities.  Security measures that differ from facility to facility mean that each presents a new and unique problem for an adversary to solve.

This rule establishes risk-based performance standards for the security of the nation’s chemical facilities. It requires covered chemical facilities to prepare Security Vulnerability Assessments, which identify facility security vulnerabilities, and to develop and implement Site Security Plans, which include measures that satisfy the identified risk-based performance standards.

It also allows certain covered chemical facilities, in specified circumstances, to submit Alternate Security Programs in lieu of a Security Vulnerability Assessment, Site Security Plan, or both.