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December 2018

SAChE® - Risk Based Process Safety - Manage Risk: Operations

eLearning (online) Course
The Risk Based Process Safety Management System has several management elements that target a facility’s performance in controlling identified risks...

SAChE® - Common Chemicals and Their Major Hazards

eLearning (online) Course
It is important for those working in the chemical industry to have a general appreciation of the hazards associated with various materials. This...

SAChE® - The Role of Inert Gases in Process Safety

eLearning (online) Course
Inerting of equipment can be an effective way of preventing fires and explosions. However, inert gases have a number of associated physical, chemical...

SAChE® - Risk Review Using LOPA (Layer of Protection Analysis)

eLearning (online) Course
This course is designed to introduce the chemical engineering student to Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA), a simplified, semi-qualitative risk...

Joan Schork

Joan Schork is a Principal Consultant with Baker Engineering and Risk Consultants, Inc. She brings over 30 years of experience in the Industrial Gases and Chemicals industries to her current work in Process Safety. Dr. Schork’s professional background is quite diverse with time spent in technical and management positions within Process Safety, Design Engineering, R&D, Gas Plant Operations, and Chemical Manufacturing. Immediately prior to joining BakerRisk in 2014, Dr. Schork was employed by Air Products and Chemicals as the Chief Engineer - Process Safety. As the...Read more

SAChE® - Hazards and Risk: Safeguards Other Than Relief Systems

eLearning (online) Course
Safeguards are at the heart of managing hazards and risk. They prevent or mitigate loss events such as fires, explosions and toxic releases...

SAChE® - Source Models

eLearning (online) Course
When working in chemical plants, failures of equipment will result in releases of toxic, flammable and explosive materials. This course introduces...

Qingsheng Wang

Dr. Wang is the holder of Dale F. Janes Endowed Professorship, Associate Professor of Fire Protection & Safety Engineering, and Graduate Faculty of Chemical Engineering at Oklahoma State University. He will start his position as Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center at Texas A&M University in January 2019. He received his BS and MS degrees in Chemistry with Honors from Zhejiang University. He also received his PhD degree in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University with an emphasis in process safety engineering. He is a...Read more

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