What Every New Engineer Needs to Know about Process Safety | AIChE

What Every New Engineer Needs to Know about Process Safety

Ready to supercharge your career with essential process safety knowledge? In this dynamic online course, you’ll get a comprehensive introduction to the world of process safety—understanding its importance and real-world applications in the process industries.

Process safety is often the cornerstone of success in the chemical and allied industries, but it doesn’t always get the focus it deserves. This course will show you exactly why it’s critical, and guide you through the key questions you should be asking as a budding engineer committed to safety and excellence.

By the end of this course, you’ll have a solid foundation in key topics like hazard identification, inherently safer design, mechanical integrity, and emergency response planning. Plus, you’ll walk away with a clear framework for expanding your process safety knowledge as you grow in your career.

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to build the skills that will set you apart in the field. Enroll today and start mastering the key principles of process safety!

After taking this course, you’ll be able to:

  • Describe the key elements of process safety
  • Identify key concepts and terminology and how they apply to process safety
  • Locate other resources to help further your process safety education
  • Describe several means of identifying hazards
  • Identify several common means of modeling hazards
  • Describe several methods for reducing the likelihood of  a loss of containment
  • Discuss several different management techniques to reduce risk

Any young professional engineer just getting started in their engineering career, especially in:

  • Upstream
  • Midstream
  • Refining
  • Chemicals
  • Manufacturing
  • Module 1

    •      Overview of the Process Safety Management Rule, OSHA 1910.119

    •      Drivers that influenced the rule

    •      Requirements of specific sections of the rule

    •      RAGAGEP – Recognized and Generally Accepted Good Engineering Practices

    •      Introduction to Codes, Standards and Practices for PSM Compliance

    Module 2

    •      Industry standards for PSM compliance

    •      API standards

    •      ASME code

    •      ANSI codes

    •      ASTM codes

    •      Guidelines

    •      Company standards and practices

    •      Implementing PSM using industry standards

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  • Course ID:
    ELA154
  • Source:
    CCPS - Center for Chemical Process Safety
  • Language:
    English
  • Skill Level:
    Basic
  • Duration:
    2 hours
  • CEUs:
    0.20
  • PDHs:
    2.00
  • Accrediting Agencies:
    RCEP