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Process Safety Engineering CHE-325

1. Introduction, background & importance.2. Accident causation theories.3. Personal factors, contribution in accident causation.4. Study and analysis of actual disasters, identifying causes of these accidents, suggesting remedial measures to avoid recurrence.5. Accident investigation, recording and analysis.6. Physico-chemical principles and safety.7. Fire flammable materials handling.8. Ratings of flammable and explosive substances.9. Safety with chemical engineering operations.10. Safety aspects of site selection, plant layout and unit plot.11. Services and facilities.12. Hazards identification and risk assessment.13. Worker safety.14. Occupational exposure limits.15. Safety education and training.16. Respiratory hazards and protection.17. Noise and vibration.18. Eye safety and other personal protective equipment.19. Permit Systems.20. Proper maintenance prevents accidents.21. Electricity and electrical equipment.22. Safety in marketing and transportation of chemicals.23. Doctor’s role in plant safety.24. Responsibilities and organization for safety, planning for safety, a safety management system.Health and safety at work legislations, regulations.OHSAS documentation, implementation, auditing.

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Process Engineers: As a process engineer, you could work on all Upstream assets and major projects both onshore and offshore. The challenges you’ll face are varied. You can expect to be involved in separation, distillation, thermodynamics and heat transfer, oil treatment, gas treatment and liquid recovery, as well as gas to liquids. You’ll also test your skills and meet new challenges in technology application and process simulation.Focusing on Downstream, your role may cover the design and optimal operation of oil and gas production facilities both offshore and onshore; oil refineries and petrochemical plants. Or you could be developing new technologies, like producing transport fuels from unconventional resources, such as natural gas and biomass.

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Process Safety Engineers: Process safety and risk engineers use their knowledge of science and engineering to analyse and evaluate hazards for our operations and projects worldwide. This can involve designing new production plants in the safest possible way, or making risk reduction improvements on existing operating facilities. Management of risk is fundamental to ensure the risk from our activities is managed correctly and that we are compliant with our company and legislative standards.

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Risk Analysis & Decision Theory

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