SAChE® Certificate Program - An Introduction to Process Safety Source: SAChE – Safety and Chemical Engineering Education Course ID: ELA950 Type: eLearning (online) CourseLanguage: English Skill Level: Basic CEUs: 0.25 PDHs: 2.50 Share This Post: This course provides an introduction to process safety at the undergraduate level so that the chemical engineering student gains an understanding of what process safety consists of and how process safety concepts are put into practice in the real world. The course introduces the student to basic process safety definitions and terms, provides a brief overview of how hazards are identified, and briefly discusses how process safety risks are evaluated and reduced. The course presents a simplified risk equation used when estimating process safety risk. The course also introduces the barrier/protection layer model in the context of helping reduce process safety incidents when applying the elements of CCPS’ Risk Based Process Safety (RBPS). Learn more about the SAChE Certificate Program. Instructor(s): Bruce K. Vaughen Bruce K. Vaughen, Ph.D., P.E., CCPSC, is the Lead Process Safety Subject Matter Expert at the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), a Technology Alliance in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). He has more than two and a half decades of process safety experience, including engineering, research, teaching, and consulting experiences in DuPont, DuPont Teijin Films, Cabot Corporation, and BakerRisk, and as a visiting assistant professor at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana. His roles have included leading global Process Safety Management...Read more Dennis Bernhard Dennis Bernhard is a retired Chemical Engineer, having spent 40 years working for Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. In the first half of his career, he was a process engineer, responsible for the design of cryogenic processes for the separation of light hydrocarbons, hydrogen, methane, helium and other gases from natural gas, refinery gases, and other sources. He moved into process safety in the second half of his career and was responsible for conducting PHA’s both for new as well as existing operating air separation and hydrogen plants, reviewing proposed changes...Read more Checkout Checkout Do you already own this? Log In for instructions on accessing this content. Pricing Teams (10 or more) Minimize cost and maximize learning with Train-A-Team. Learn more Individuals AIChE Members $169.00 Employees of CCPS Member Companies $169.00 AIChE Graduate Student Members Free AIChE Undergraduate Student Members Free Non-Members $199.00 Accrediting Agencies: Florida New Jersey New York RCEP Horizontal TabsOutline Unit 1 - What is Process Safety and Risk? Unit 2 - How are Process Safety Risks Assessed? Unit 3 - How are Process Safety Risks Managed? Download Course Outline (PDF) What You'll Learn Unit 1: - Define "process safety" and distinguish it from workplace safety and industrial hygiene - Describe the potential impacts of process safety incidents - Describe several incidents that resulted in improvements in process safety - Define key terms related to process safety - Illustrate how a process safety incident can be prevented or its consequences reduced Unit 2: - Explain what a process safety hazard is and provide examples - Explain how a scenario is used to help evaluate risk - Describe possible consequences, given a scenario - Determine the likelihood of a scenario and - Estimate the risk of a given scenario Unit 3: - List and describe the hierarchy of controls to manage process safety risks - List the four pillars of the Risk Based Process Safety (RBPS) model - Differentiate between codes, standards, and global regulations and directives and give examples of each - Describe the SAChE course framework Who Should Attend This course is designed as the introductory course to the SAChE Process Safety curriculum. This course is primarily intended for those who have little or no previous exposure to process safety – that is, students early in their undergraduate chemical engineering studies. The basic concepts covered in this course provide the background needed to begin the study of process safety, setting the stage for the subsequent SAChE courses in this series and helping chemical engineering students better understand how to effectively manage the risks when designing and operating processes with hazardous materials and energies. FAQs Find answers to questions about registration and refunds, tuitions and fees, travel and lodging (for location-based courses), how eLearning courses work, how credits work, and more. Go to FAQs Page
Bruce K. Vaughen Bruce K. Vaughen, Ph.D., P.E., CCPSC, is the Lead Process Safety Subject Matter Expert at the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), a Technology Alliance in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). He has more than two and a half decades of process safety experience, including engineering, research, teaching, and consulting experiences in DuPont, DuPont Teijin Films, Cabot Corporation, and BakerRisk, and as a visiting assistant professor at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana. His roles have included leading global Process Safety Management...Read more
Dennis Bernhard Dennis Bernhard is a retired Chemical Engineer, having spent 40 years working for Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. In the first half of his career, he was a process engineer, responsible for the design of cryogenic processes for the separation of light hydrocarbons, hydrogen, methane, helium and other gases from natural gas, refinery gases, and other sources. He moved into process safety in the second half of his career and was responsible for conducting PHA’s both for new as well as existing operating air separation and hydrogen plants, reviewing proposed changes...Read more