(54ba) Teaching Operational Experience - before Entering the Workforce

In 2016 the IChemE Safety Centre led a project working with industry and universities to develop a list of desired learning outcomes for process safety in undergraduate qualifications. Over 2017 this list has been shared with universities all over the world and feedback sought on the practicality of delivering these learning outcomes. As part of this it was identified that several of the learning outcomes were based more in operational safety and it was thought this could not be taught at university as it is a non operational environment. This led to a rethink on how operational process safety could be taught. This paper will lay out a series of ideas that are being developed into resources by the IChemE Safety Centre. These resources will be available for universities to use in teaching operational process safety. They focus on how the laboratory can be seen as a small scale operational facility, requiring safety systems of work. This work should help to expose students to operational process safety as well as enhance the safety outcomes in laboratory work. This work seems ot compliment the resources that AIChE are developing in their Doing a World of Good project.