James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2000

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CL4040:03

Process Safety Design and Management

Townsville

Prerequisites: Level 3 chemical engineering subjects

26 lectures, 26 tutorials. First semester.

Available to chemical engineering students.

Ethics and responsibility. Intrinsically safe design. Practice and improve written and verbal communication skills. Familiarise the student with procedures required to identify, assess and reduce risk. Legislative requirements. Operating procedures. Operations. Learning from disasters. Safe handling of hazardous materials. Hazard analysis. Hazard and operability. Environmental considerations.

Learning Objectives:

  1. to acquaint the student with responsibility for safety;
  2. to equip the student with the skills to determine if a process is inherently safe;
  3. to familiarise the student with the procedures required to minimise risk;
  4. to make the student aware of environmental considerations.

Assessment by four assignments (100%).


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