Professional engineering training

The subject matter will be of benefit to professional engineers who would like to keep up to date and also to executives in chemical engineering industries, who have not been trained in chemical engineering, to serve as a guide for their appreciation of the application of chemical engineering principles to plant design. 

There is also a shortage of system safety engineers and of safety professionals, engineers, and managers trained in system safety. 

The shift in focus of engineering training from the job site - whether a machine shop or a canal - to universities thus did not wholly remove the practical element from education, especially since the field maintained close ties with industry. The impetus to establish the field as the domain of white-collar professionals, however, meant that engineers integrated themselves into the industry as experts in abstract thinking who were loyal to management, not as tradesmen whose practical experience could invite identification with carpenters or machinists. 

This addendum is reprinted with the permission of Adele Abrams and the American Society of Safety Engineers, the entity that commissioned her paper. Abrams is an attorney, safety professional, and trained mediator who represents employers and contractors nationwide in OSHA and MSHA litigation, and in worker s compensation and other employment matters. She also provides safety, health, and environmental training and consultation services to both small and large businesses. She is president of Adele L. Abrams P.C. in Beltsviiie, Md., and can be contacted at safetylawyer aol.com or 301-595-3520. 

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