Chemical Process Safety

Overview/Description
This course is designed for employees who work at industrial process plants to recognize potential safety and health implications associated with their job. It is intended to educate the employees to help prevent or minimize the consequences of a catastrophic release of toxic, reactive, flammable, or explosive highly hazardous chemicals, or HHCs, from a process. The content in this course is designed to comply with the intent of the applicable regulatory requirements. Learner objectives for this course are to identify the process safety management employer requirements, specify process hazard analysis information, define the purpose of the chemical process safety management program, and recognize the elements of a PSM program. This course was developed with subject matter support provided by EnSafe Inc., a global professional services company focusing on engineering, environment, health and safety, and information technology.

Target Audience
All personnel working in industrial process plants

Expected Duration (hours)
0.5

Lesson Objectives

Chemical Process Safety

• identify the purpose of the Chemical Process Safety Program
• identify employer requirements
• identify process hazard analysis information
• cite general information related to the elements in a PSM program