Michelle R. Murphy is President of Mica, LLC (Email: murphy@micadhm.com). After starting her career as a process engineer, she has been consulting in process safety and risk management for more than 20 years. She collaborates with clients to simplify the process of characterizing, identifying, and reducing the risk of handling hazardous materials. Murphy designed, built, and managed a process safety laboratory. Her wide-ranging experience encompasses evaluation and assessment of processes handling reactive chemicals and combustible dusts. She has conducted process safety work in a variety of industries, including food, specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, plastics, machining, and oil production and refining. Murphy has a BS in chemistry from the Univ. of Massachusetts, Dartmouth and an MS in chemical engineering from Clarkson Univ. She is a Certified Process Safety Professional by the Center for Chemical Process Safety and is a senior member of AIChE.