Chemical process safety training

Other publications include the proceedings of six international conferences and symposia three training courses and a computeri2ed bibliography of Guideline references, all available from the Center for Chemical Process Safety (1-800-242-4363). 

Include important accidents of the past in the training of young graduates and company employees. Suitable training material is available from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the U.K. Institution of Chemical Engineers (Crowl and Louvar, Chemical Process Safety Fundamentals and Applications, Prentice Hall, 1990). 

CCPS Y-28. Management of Change—Computer Based Training Module. American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Center for Chemical Process Safety, New York. 

Source C. J. Mumford, PSl Chemical Process Safety, October 1993, Reproduced with permission of the Occcupationai Health and Safety Training Unit, University of Portsmouth, U.K. 

The present book is rooted in a lecture on chemical process safety at graduate level (Masters) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. It is also based on experience gained in numerous training courses for professionals held at the Swiss Institute for the Promotion of Safety Security, as well as in a number of major chemical and pharmaceutical companies. Thus it has the character of a textbook and addresses students, but also addresses professional chemists, chemical engineers or engineers in process development and production of fine chemicals and pharmaceutical industries, as support for their practice of process safety. 

The AIChE s Center for Chemical Process Safety has a wide variety of process safety resources. The Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) was established to focus on engineering and management practices that will prevent or mitigate catastrophic process safety accidents. The CCPS has a dynamic program of publications, seminars, training courses, and research. Some topics will be covered briefly here, but for the most up-to-date information, visit www.ccps aiche.org. 

Look around the bookshelves. There are many good recent books and articles on Chemical Process Safety theory and procedures. These texts offer sound advice on identifying chemical process hazard analysis, training, audits, and guidelines books addressing the elements of OSHA s Process Safety Management Law. However, only a few people such as Trevor A. Kletz offer many authentic case histories that provide opportunities to learn fundamentals in process safety. 

Dr, Ronald J. Willey of Northeastern University in Boston prepared an excellent 35miT slide training package entitled Seminar on Tank Failures. Professor Willey developed this instructional lecture material under the direction and guidance of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Undergraduate Education Committee of the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS). ... 

In an ideal world, an easy-to-contact, responsive modifications man would be available for questions generated in Operations, Engineering, and Maintenance. This modifications man could be a Process Safety Engineer, Loss Prevention Engineer, or a mechanical or chemical engineer who has been trained in chemical process safety. Preferably, this individual would be an on-site plant employee, but he could be a company regional engineer, a property insurance consultant, or a contractor. The modifications man must understand basic loss-prevention principles of proper layout. 

The 1991 CCPS/AIChE Directory of Chemical Process Safety Services, AIChE, New York, 1991, contains a compilation of more than 350 sources of chemical process safety services offered within the United States and Canada. The book contains the names and addresses of companies offering consulting services, emergency services, testing as.sis-tance, and training schools. 

The American Society of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) is a technical society devoted to chemical engineering and associated technologies and issues. Many chemical engineers work in the chemical process industry. In 1985, AIChE established the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS). It was an industry response to the Bhopal, India, disaster (Case 24-1). It has become the center of expertise for process safety. It publishes many publications on process safety, and conducts conferences and training to advance process safety practices. 

Operations Training Gnide for Process Safety. Chemical Mannfactnrers Association, Washington, D.C., 1993. 

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