The following Certificates are presently included in the program:

• Process Safety Lessons Taught from Experience (Ron Willey, Northeastern University) (2011)
  This certificate is designed to provide insight into important case histories related to process safety. By learning from the mistakes of others, the hope is to avoid similar mistakes. The certificate requires about three hours to complete. Although developed for chemical engineering faculty and students, the certificate can also be used as part of the safety orientation at industrial facilities.
• Process Safety 101 (Jon Bernardi, The Lubrizol Corporation) (2010)
  This certificate provides information for a basic understanding of the United States process safety regulations and general chemical process safety concepts.
  
• Dust Explosion Control (Joe Louvar, Wayne State University) (2010)
  Dust explosions have received a lot of attention in recent years from industry and the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB). CSB has made recommendations that should help prevent dust explosions, and this certificate is based on these recommendations. To obtain this certificate, students should study all of the resources below and then pass the online exam to successfully complete this Safety Certificate.
  
• Inherently Safer Design (Dennis Hendershot, CCPS Staff Consultant) (2009)
  Inherently safer design has received a lot of attention in recent years from industry, environmental groups, and has even been discussed in the general public and mass media. Bills have been introduced in the United States Congress requiring consideration of inherently safer design, both for safety and also as for potential benefit in making chemical facilities less attractive targets for terrorist activity. As of the summer of 2009, these proposals had not passed in Congress, but legislation is again under consideration.
  
• Safety in the Process Industries (Dan Crowl, Michigan Tech University) (2008)
  This video series entitled "Safety in the Chemical Process Industries" presents a strong introduction to the application of chemical process safety technology in an actual chemical facility. Topics include:
  • concept of corporate safety programs
  • laboratory safety inspections
  • personal protective equipment
  • process area safety features and procedures
  • DIERS methods for characterizing runaway reactions
  • equipment and methods to characterize flammable dusts and vapors
  • informal and formal safety reviews


• Risk Assessment (Ralph W. Pike, Louisiana State University) (2008)
  This certificate uses a browser-based SAChE product to provide an overview of the methods used for risk assessment, management, and reduction with examples and exercises.
  
• Runaway Reactions (Amy Theis, Fauske and Associates) (2008)
  This SACHE Student Safety Certificate focuses on managing chemical reaction hazards, particularly runaway reactions. Chemical reactions are integral to the process industries, and it is critical that reactions be properly understood in order to handle them safely. Available resources for identifying potential runaway reactions are presented in this module as well as tools for sizing relief systems to safely control and contain these potential runaway reactions.
  
• Chemical Reactivity Hazards (Robert Johnson, Unwin Co.) (2008)
  This certificate uses a web-based SAChE product to provide an overview of the basic understanding of chemical reactivity hazards; supplemented with selected issues of the Process Safety Beacon from the SAChE archive.
  

Lists of students who successfully complete a module will be sent to their SAChE contact school or department; see the list of students who have completed the certificate: 2008 (PDF), 2009 (PDF), 2010 (PDF), 2011 (PDF), or 2012 (PDF) (or 2012 (Excel format)).

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