Process Safety for all Engineers
Process Safety for all Engineers is a two-day (8-hour) course that will take place on August 9 - 10 from 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST. This course will include a review and discussion of the anatomy of an incident, examples, workshops, and videos which will help the participants to understand how process safety applies to all disciplines of engineering. Attendees will receive a certificate with 8PDH/0.8CEU at the end of the course.
Cost: $199/Attendee
The event will feature the following speakers from both CCPS and Columbia University:
- Louisa A. Nara, CCPSC, CCPS Global Technical Director. Louisa has over 40 years of process engineering, process safety, crisis management, and emergency response.
- Dr. Venkat Venkatasubramanian, Ph.D., Samuel Ruben-Peter G. Viele Professor of Engineering; Professor of Computer Science (Affiliate); Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (Affiliate); Co-Director, Center for the Management of Systemic Risk (CMSR) at Columbia University. Venkat’s research interests are diverse, ranging from AI to systems engineering to theoretical physics to economics, but they are generally focused on the theme of understanding complexity and emergent behavior in different domains.
- Jennifer Bitz, CCPSC, Lead Process Safety Engineer/Project Manager at the Center for Chemical Process Safety. Jennifer has worked in both industry and consulting, performing PHA and LOPA, developing corporate and plant process safety programs, writing procedures, conducting RBPS and regulatory PS audits, and analyzing fire, explosion, and toxic release hazards.
During the 2-day event we will discuss process safety in the following aspects:
- Mining
- Dam Failures
- Artificial Intelligence
- Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment
We will also focus on key points to ensure safety and sustainability, which includes understanding the risks associated with the entity for which we are responsible; knowledge and implementation expertise to manage those risks; controls and systems to prevent failures from occurring; and, controls and systems to mitigate failures if they do occur. Causes of failures can come from: technology; human performance (or lack of); management system failures; external circumstances or impacts; and, natural phenomena such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and flooding.
Note: The event is limited to the first 40 registrants. There will be a waitlist, and if the waitlist is significant, the speakers will run this program again.