SAChE® Certificate Program - Hazards and Risk: What Can Go Wrong? Source: SAChE – Safety and Chemical Engineering Education Course ID: ELA970 Type: eLearning (online) CourseLanguage: English Skill Level: Intermediate Duration: 4 hours CEUs: 0.40 PDHs: 4.00 Share This Post: In chemical processing, understanding how adverse incidents can arise is an essential component of effective process safety management. This intermediate course is the first of a group directed at the management of hazards and risk. Students will examine the concepts of hazards, consequences and risk and learn how physical conditions and material properties can present hazards in a process. Finally, students will discuss how failures in selected equipment categories and deficient performance in management systems and procedures can allow hazards to evolve into adverse incidents. Using case studies, the course will introduce students to the thought process safety practitioners use to anticipate hazardous situations when participating in hazard identification and risk assessment activities. This course positions students to better appreciate the courses that immediately follow in sequence, which will describe the tools available to manage hazards and risks after they are identified and understood. Learn more about the SAChE Certificate Program. Instructor(s): Gregory Hounsell Greg developed his technical capabilities over a 35 year career at Pfizer Inc., first as a manager for ten years in the Brooklyn manufacturing facility, overseeing the production of synthesis and fermentation based food additives and antibiotics, and then as a design engineer and project manager in the corporation's Global Engineering Department. His engineering activities included providing process consulting support to sites worldwide, process support to capital projects, and design management on various projects. Greg was instrumental in the development of...Read more Joshua Enszer Joshua Enszer is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware. He earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Michigan Technological University and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on undergraduate chemical engineering education, including Game-Based Learning and Writing to Learn. Previously, Josh worked at the University of Maryland Baltimore County as a lecturer in chemical engineering, and before that at the University of Notre Dame as interim coordinator...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 are Hazards, Consequences and Risks? Unit 2 - Potential Consequences Arising from Physical Conditions Unit 3 - Potential Consequences Arising from Material Hazards Unit 4 - Potential Consequences Arising from Equipment and Procedural Failings Download Course Outline (PDF) What You'll Learn Unit 1: Define hazard, consequence and risk, and provide an example of each Describe a risk matrix Unit 2: Identify five physical conditions that present intrinsic hazards to personnel or equipment Unit 3: Identify four common material hazards Given a case study, show how a material hazard led to an adverse event Unit 4: Examining case studies, describe examples of equipment and procedural failure Identify codes, standards and practices applicable to the process industries Who Should Attend This intermediate course is for upper-level chemical engineering undergraduates who have had some exposure to process safety. Before taking this course, it is recommended that the student take ELA969 “Understanding Hazards and Risk” first. In addition, it is recommended that the student have a basic understanding of (at least) toxicological hazards, fire and explosion hazards, and chemical reactivity hazards before taking this course. The SAChE undergraduate process safety curriculum (https://www.aiche.org/ccps/community/technological-communities/safety-and-chemical-engineering-education-sache/certificate-program/Level-Two-Intermediate-Curriculum) includes courses that cover these topics. FAQs Find answers to questions about registration and refunds, tuition and fees, travel and lodging (for location-based courses), how eLearning courses work, how credits work, and more. Go to FAQs Page
Gregory Hounsell Greg developed his technical capabilities over a 35 year career at Pfizer Inc., first as a manager for ten years in the Brooklyn manufacturing facility, overseeing the production of synthesis and fermentation based food additives and antibiotics, and then as a design engineer and project manager in the corporation's Global Engineering Department. His engineering activities included providing process consulting support to sites worldwide, process support to capital projects, and design management on various projects. Greg was instrumental in the development of...Read more
Joshua Enszer Joshua Enszer is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware. He earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Michigan Technological University and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on undergraduate chemical engineering education, including Game-Based Learning and Writing to Learn. Previously, Josh worked at the University of Maryland Baltimore County as a lecturer in chemical engineering, and before that at the University of Notre Dame as interim coordinator...Read more