Safety

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Syllabi, schedules, course notes

• Safety and Chemical Engineering Education (SAChE)
  • SAChE Certificate Program

Animated Videos

• U.S. Chemical Safety Board: More than 70 videos that contain animations of chemical plant accidents. Here are links to three examples:

    

Simulations

• Reactor explosion (University of Michigan)

Modules and Tutorials

• Course-specific modules, tutorials, and safety resources (University of Michigan): Course safety modules for material and energy balances, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, separations, reaction engineering, and process control. Safety tutorials and other resources.

Software

• Chemical Reactivity Worksheet: A free software program for the chemical reactivity of thousands of common hazardous chemicals
• CAMEO Chemicals: Database of hazardous chemicals

Useful Links

• Toxic Substances
  • Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry: ASTDR's mission is to prevent exposure and adverse human health effects due to exposure to hazardous substances
  • Society of Toxicology: Organization representing toxicologists
  • American Conference for Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH): Information on the threshold limit values (TLV) for toxic chemicals
  • 3M Respirator Selection Guide: Hazardous properties for a large number of chemicals, including odor thresholds, and respirator selection guides
• AIChE
  • AIChE Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS): This AIChE website contains lots of resources and lists of available publications on process safety
  • AIChE Process Safety Progress Journal: This journal is supported by the AIChE Safety and Health Division and has leading research articles on process safety
• U.S. Government Agencies
  • U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration: Access to all the regulations related to process safety, including 1910.119 process safety management of highly hazardous chemicals. This includes permissible exposure limits (PEL) promulgated by OSHA
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Provides government resources for emergency management. This includes regulations, publications, databases and tools
  • U.S. National Library of Medicine: Toxicology data network provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. It includes databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health and toxic releases
  • U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission: Product safety information
• Mary K. O’Connor Process Safety Center (Texas A&M University): Snapshot of what's happening in process safety
• Process Safety Web Page (Michigan Technological University): Educational materials on process and laboratory safety
• Knovel On-line Engineering Reference Library: Large library of safety reference materials
• European Process Safety Center (ESPC): Resources from the European perspective
• Singapore Society of Loss Prevention (SLP): Resources in the Asian community