The AIChE Academy Process Safety Curriculum was developed by a team of experts (below) to serve as a training guide for Chemical Engineers. It is designed to help guide learners based on their job role. It employs both the CCPS 20 Elements of Risk Based Process Safety framework and the AIChE Body of Knowledge Personas (slightly adapted) to help users determine what courses or other resources to take advantage of.
AIChE Academy Process Safety Curriculum Team
- Thomas J. Walsh
- Kevin Fogarty
- Louisa Nara
- Warren Greenfield
- David Belonger
- Scott D. Love
- Thomas Rehm
How to Use this Tool
Process Safety Curriculum (PDF)
The Curriculum document is physically arranged by CCPS Process Safety Element on the left and AIChE Body of Knowledge Personas across the top.
Read below to determine where your job title/role fits and then follow the column down to see which courses are recommended for you.
How to determine which persona to use to guide your learning: there are nine personas in the Curriculum, read below to find out which persona includes your job title or role.
Manufacturing Manager:
- Technical Staff Manager
- Site Manager
- Operations Manager
- Technical Manager
- Maintenance Manager
- HSE Manager
- Engineering Manager
- Technical Task Manager
- Operations Superintendent
- Technical Superintendent
- Maintenance Superintendent
- Safety Superintendent
- Environmental Superintendent
Manufacturing Engineer:
- Production Process Engineer
- Operations Engineer
- Process Engineer
- Environmental Engineer
- Maintenance Engineer
- Safety Engineer
- Safety Engineer
- Process Safety Engineer
Project Manager:
- Project Manager
- Project Engineer
Process Design Engineer
Process Control Engineer:
- Process Control Engineer
- Safety Systems Engineer
Operating Personnel:
- Operator/Technician
- Shift Supervisor
- Auditor
- Planner in Production
Industrial Researcher:
- Industrial Researcher
- Scientist
- R&D Manager
Corporate:
- Consultant
- Standard Setter
Other Engineers:
- Consultant
- Discipline Engineer
- Checker
- Standard Setter
Start learning today. For more information or questions about the curriculum, please contact academy@aiche.org.
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