Michelle Murphy

Michelle R. Murphy is president of Mica, LLC. After starting her career as a process engineer, Ms. Murphy has been consulting in process safety and risk management for over 20 years. She has recently started her own company, Mica, LLC, with the goal to improve safety in manufacturing by collaborating with clients to simplify process safety. Michelle designed, built, and managed a process safety laboratory. Her wide-ranging experience comprises reactive chemical evaluation, combustible dust characterization, 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, 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 member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.