Fatalities, such as those which occurred at the T2 Laboratory in 2007, could have beenavoided with better understanding and implementation of the elements of ProcessSafety Management (PSM). Applications using the PSM elements have made significantadvances in industry over the past three decades which help engineers reduce processsafety risks with better tools for understanding, analyzing, designing and controllinghazardous processes. The concepts of conservation of mass and energy have beencomplemented with the process safety management concept of conservation of life.This paper describes a new SaChE module which has been created to help bridge partof the process safety-related awareness and education gap between academia andindustry. The module provides a framework for organizing the SaChE products,combining the requirements of the senior design project with process hazards analysisprinciples which drive successful industrial PSM programs. Instructors and students canuse this module to improve their awareness of the PSM-related resources andtechniques, with particular emphasis on locating the SaChE products that have beendesigned to be integrated within the chemical engineering curriculum. Use of thismodule will help ensure that students graduate with, at minimum, an awareness ofdifferent hazards analysis techniques that must be used when they design their riskreduction controls, preventing irreversible life-changing process-related incidents fromaffecting them or their co-workers.
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