Introduction to Chemical Process Safety

1 Credit.

This course covers topics in chemical process safety. Chemical process safety concerns itself with discovery, analysis, and control of risks arising from chemical processes. Starting with the definition of risk and ethical principles that apply to safety-critical situations, we will progress to several types of hazard analysis, discussion of the safety implications of construction materials, incident investigation, fire, toxicity, and the technique called Inherently Safer Design). The ePortfolio tag(s) on this course signify that there are one or more assignments offered in the course that provide students with the opportunity to be assessed for proficiency in completion of the relevant ePortfolio requirement(s).