Michelle Murphy

Michelle R. Murphy is president of Sigma-HSE, Inc, the North American division of Sigma-HSE. Starting her career as a process engineer, Michelle has been consulting in process safety and risk management for 25 years. Michelle joined Sigma-HSE under their shared goal of partnering with companies to create a safe workplace protecting staff, site, environment, and reputation. Michelle built her own consulting company, Mica, LLC, and designed, built, and managed a process safety laboratory. Her wide-ranging experience encompasses combustible dust characterization, dust hazard analysis, reactive chemical evaluation, process safety and risk management program development, emergency relief system design, process hazard analysis, and environmental, health and safety auditing. Her process safety work has been conducted throughout the process industries, including food, specialty chemical, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, plastics, machining, and oil production and refining. Michelle has a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth and an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Clarkson University. She is a Certified Process Safety Professional by the Center for Chemical Process Safety,a committee member of NFPA 484, and a senior member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.