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  1. YPOV: Lessons Learned from Process Safety Incidents (and near misses)

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2017 November Emily Petruzzelli Every chemical engineer knows that seemingly small mistakes or temporary lapses in judgment can have serious consequences. Young professionals can be especially prone to error because we lack industrial experience, yet want ...
  2. 10 Steps to Protect Workers against Airborne Hazards

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2017 October Erik W. Johnson Respiratory safety involves more than properly wearing and maintaining personal protective equipment (PPE). Follow these steps to evaluate hazards and establish effective procedures to mitigate those hazards. In facilities whe ...
  3. “Bridging the Valley of Death”: Overcoming Commercialization Obstacles

    Conference Event | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers | Jun 7, 2017
    AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers Process Development Symposium 2017 Session Chairs: Stacie Santhany, The Dow Chemical Company David Edwards, Zeton Session Description: There are so many important stage-gates to overcome to get a process or pr ...
  4. Jump Start Process Safety Engineering Education: A How-To Workshop

    Conference Event | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers | Nov 13, 2016
    AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers AIChE Annual Meeting 2016 Workshop Room: Yosemite B (Hilton San Francisco Union Square) Integration of process safety engineering into the curricula has evolved since 1984 and now is a required topic for all a ...
  5. Profile: Pursuing Science for the Public Good

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2016 December For Siddhartha “Sid” Roy, watching the Flint water crisis unfold and listening to the stories of its residents has emphasized the role the public should play in engineering and public health. “If we as engineers have a public-focused mindset ...
  6. Process Safety Visions: Committed Culture

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2016 November What does great process safety look like? The Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) offers a common vision of excellent process safety performance — Vision 20/20. In this vision, companies follow five industry tenets enabled by four soci ...
  7. The ChE as Sherlock Holmes: Investigating Process Incidents

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2016 October James A. Klein, CCPSC, CPSA *This article is based on a paper presented at the AIChE 2015 Spring Meeting and 11th Global Congress on Process Safety, April 2015. Investigating process incidents to understand what happened and why provides vita ...
  8. Become an Effective Safety Leader

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2016 August Greg Robinson Each of us is responsible for developing and encouraging a strong safety culture. One way to do that is to incorporate these five critical safety activities into your daily routine. Because everyone is responsible for safety, any ...
  9. Risk Mitigation in Process Development

    Conference Event | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers | Jun 8, 2016
    AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers Process Development Symposium 2016 Session Chair: Jorge Jimenez, SABIC Abhishek Pednekar, Honeywell Session Description: Reducing the time span for technology development while avoiding scale-up/implementation ...
  10. Process Safety Education: Meeting ABET Requirements and Industry Needs

    Conference Event | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers | Nov 8, 2015
    AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers AIChE Annual Meeting 2015 Workshop Agenda  This workshop is intended for faculty members. Workshop Description:   This one-day workshop will bring academics together with industry and academic leaders in proce ...

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