The course will meet the recommendations of the CCPS Technical Steering Committee to assist colleges and universities to aid Engineers and Applied science graduates in meeting recent accreditation requirements for including process safety and environmental assessment into the chemical engineering curricula.
The course will focus on the following aspects
- The duties and legal responsibilities for which engineers are accountable
- An overview of the updated environmental and health safety laws and regulations and their enforcement agencies
- An overview of the standardization process internationally, regional, national
- An overview of how standards are applied and verified by independent third-party organizations.
- Relevant standards on environmental impact assessment, LCA & risk assessment methods and techniques
- Examples of product standards related to production process and testing
- A general study of hazards and their control
- A thorough discussion of human behavior, capabilities, and limitations
- Key instruction on managing environmental health and safety through risk management, safety analyses, and safety plans and programs
- The concept of process safety management (PSM)
- The 20 elements of process safety defined by the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS)
- The need for process safety as illustrated by examples of major process safety incidents that have occurred
- Process safety concerns with some selected unit operations
- Tasks that can be expected of an engineer new to process safety with respect to environmental and health safety in their first few years on the job
The latest legal considerations, new risk analysis methods, system safety and decision-making tools, and today's concepts and methods in ergonomic design. It also contains revised reference figures and tables, OSHA permissible exposure limits, and updated examples and exercises taken from real cases that challenged engineering designs. The opportunity to receive accreditation will be offered as optional to students who successfully complete the course.
